In late 2025, scientists reported that for the first time, they were able to detect concentrations of plastic pollution on ...

On February 4, 1995, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery launched an itty bitty satellite called an Orbital Debris ...

As space activity expands, the accumulation of man-made objects in orbit has become a critical challenge. Space debris ...

NASA’s EMIT sensor uses imaging spectroscopy and spectral libraries to support large-scale tracking of plastic and other marine debris from space.

Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...

Networks created to measure quakes deep underground could also track old, potentially dangerous satellites burning up in the atmosphere, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated. “We’d like ...