Every year, thousands of satellites are launched into orbit around our planet. The result is an increasingly congested "space" above Earth populated by equipment that provides services to the surface.

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to the ground. To locate possible crash sites, a Johns Hopkins University ...

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—poses a risk to humans when it falls to the ground. To locate possible crash sites, a Johns Hopkins University ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how much stuff is orbiting around the earth? In fact, there are a ton of satellites, spacecraft, and space junk floating out there above our heads. According to Azmth, ...

Space junk falling out of orbit and crashing toward Earth is a growing threat. Indeed, old satellites and spacecraft parts reenter our planet’s atmosphere more than three times a day. When these ...

Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments already listening to the Earth itself. By tapping into networks of ...

Seismometers — equipment designed to pinpoint earthquakes — are now being used to track the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth’s orbit. Some of those items pose a risk to ...

Orion Space Solutions will support Phase 2 research focused on refining and operationalizing techniques that use plasma waves and ionospheric measurements to detect and characterize untracked orbital ...

This story appears in the July 2026 issue of Forbes Asia. Subscribe to Forbes Asia Bangalore-based Digantara Industries’ three cofounders, all alums of the 30 Under 30 Asia Class of 2025, set out to ...