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 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 ...

Space is littered with man-made trash that threatens satellites, space missions and life on Earth. A newly designed European Space Agency robot will drag the junk back toward Earth, where it will burn ...

Earth has a bit of a space junk problem in low orbit. Currently, there are around 9,500 active satellites floating up in space with myriad purposes, but there are countless other defunct bits of junk ...

Many of us have become used to chucking out an old computer after moving on to a newer, sleeker model. But if you’re about to do so, spare a thought for all the cool inventions you’ll be missing out ...

One day, robots will ascend into the heavens, take working parts off of dead satellites, and use them to construct new ones. That's the dream of the Pentagon's blue-sky researchers, and they've ...