A self-destructing robot will be sent into orbit on the world's first space cleanup mission, European scientists announced Monday, a fresh approach to fixing up the galaxy's junk graveyard. Our orbit ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Cleaning up a dirty kitchen or bedroom is one thing but when the mess is in space, the problem becomes infinitely more difficult to solve. “We have a big space junk problem that's ...

A new video from Japan-based company Astroscale demonstrates a bold new proposal for cleaning up low Earth orbit (LEO). Astroscale launched an initial flight for a previous iteration of its vehicle, ...

If you can sit through this Theramin-tinged cacophonous din, you might just start to appreciate this pile of junk and household detritus playing the erstwhile wonderful Gnarls Barkley song, “Crazy.” ...

There is a lot of space junk orbiting Earth. Norwegian researchers believe that in the future, there will be a market for its removal, and have developed an entirely new type of robot vision that will ...

An American space firm aims to use United Launch Alliance (ULA) and SpaceX rockets to launch orbiting robots next year, 2023, according to a report by Insider. Four robots are now being built by the ...