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Last october warning sirens sounded over northern japan when a north korean missile streaked over head. >> an overnight of japan, for example, always poses a huge risk, especially whenever youre developing a new system, as north korea is often doing. >> reporter: debriss a real danger. >> debriss a real danger for sure. >> reporter: real enough that japanese school children were put through a duck and cover exercise last fall. and then theres space debris. >> a re-entering satellite looks very s...

I had a thought to myself this past February 1st, with the 20th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia's and all seven of its crew tragic loss. F...

The US Space Force confirmed that a Russian satellite disintegrated into orbit and produced 85 fragments of space debris.

Russia kept the Kosmos 2499 satellite's mission a secret, even after its bizarre maneuvers drew attention. Now it may have exploded in orbit.

With more than 100 lunar missions planned in coming years, space junk near the Moon could become an issue for humanity. No agency tracks lunar space junk, so two astronomers decided to do it themselves.

With more than 100 lunar missions planned in coming years, space junk near the Moon could become an issue for humanity. No agency tracks lunar space junk, so two astronomers decided to do it themselves.

A 7.3m (23.95 foot) antenna in rural Tasmania, dubbed the southernmost of its kind, will boost the tracking ...

Experts have recently warned that an abundance of satellites is threatening to "clog up" the night skies, blocking out stars and leaving astronomers unable to make observations or detect alien life.

With the spacecraft. over the last few weeks, tests have been done closing up the hatches to see how hot it will get in that spacecraft, and thats what made the engineers uncomfortable, if the temperature inside didnt rise high both for the crew and also for the electronics. >> yeah. lets talk more about micro meteorites. how concerns are they? and what exactly is it? >> sure. theyre the biggest worry we have for spacecraft with crew onboard and also for satellites. basically, it is kind of this...

There instead of making sure they burn up in the atmosphere and anything that survives stays away from major cities and shipping lanes and things like that. so thats part of the solution. there have been different proposals on how to clean up space junk. frankly, none of them to me have been very viable. but, you know, there is -- the stuff will eventually come down on its own by and large, but it takes time. the problem is, of course, if you keep generating more and hopefully more people adopt ...