Purdue University engineers have developed a space-debris-clearing drag sail called Spinnaker3 that is designed to speed up the deorbiting of space junk up to 400 miles (645 km) high so it safely ...

Engineers are set to test a device that could pull defunct spacecraft and used rocket parts back to Earth, allowing them to burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere. Researchers at Purdue University in ...

China began an effort to manage the space junk orbiting Earth by attaching a giant sail to the rocket it launched last month, which would facilitate its reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere. On June 24 ...

Future satellites could deploy solar sails to help take down pieces of space junk floating around Earth and a tiny new spacecraft hopes to make it possible. A British satellite the size of a shoe box ...

A large sail deployed by China aims to deorbit a rocket component within two years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. China has ...

Chinese space scientists have said they successfully used a huge space sail to remove debris from Earth's orbit. Announced by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology on July 6, the huge sail ...

The skies above are growing increasingly crowded with satellites zipping across Earth’s upper atmosphere, relaying signals for everything from the picture on your television to the map on your phone.

Montgomery Gisborne estimates he's put in over 600 hours refinishing Hai Long, an authentic Chinese junk sailboat that he and his wife Daniela bought last fall. "Every day just goes to fix [the] boat.

Engineers are set to test a device that could pull defunct spacecraft and used rocket parts back to Earth, allowing them to burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere. Researchers at Purdue University in ...