At any given time, NASA is keeping track of about 16,000 pieces of space junk in Earth's orbit — and those are just the big chunks. This debris poses a serious safety hazard, primarily to operational satellites in the planet's orbit, but also to astronauts like those on board the ISS. In fact, according to some NASA …
Why a tungsten dust cloud could help solve the space junk crisis
After fifty years of space exploration, humanity has left well over 5000 tons of debris up there, and the ever growing pile of space junk poses a serious risk to spacecraft. Now there's a solution...and it's only slightly crazy.
That's No Moon... That's A Bunch Of Free-Floating Debris
If analysis of new images of Jupiter are to be believed, the planet may have found itself with a new ring recently, which may answer the question of what happened to disappearing moon S/2000 J 11...
The Earth Has A Halo Of Space Crap
Did you know there are at least 9,000 chunks of trash orbiting the Earth? Turns out they look gorgeous and wreath-y, at least in this gallery images depicting Earth's space junk. [U.S. News & World Report]
