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Topic: space junk

Satellite hurtling through space burning up as it enters the atmosphere. (PaulFleet / Getty Images)

Falling space debris: A growing threat

Joanna Thompson
Satellites Flying Around Earth (Getty Images/yucelyilmaz)

Scientists propose space junk cleanup

Matthew Rozsa
Moon (Getty Images/MASTER)

How bad are humans trashing the Moon?

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Earth with a pile of garbage spilling into outer space (Getty Images/urfinguss)

The "enshittification" of tech in space

Rae Hodge
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Galactic trash orbiting Earth (Getty Images/janiecbros)

The place where satellites go to die

Elizabeth Hlavinka
In this handout provided by NASA, Expedition 69 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is helped out of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft just minutes after he and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on September 27, 2023. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)

New record for longest US spaceflight

Matthew Rozsa
Space junk around Earth (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Space junk is only going to increase

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Galactic trash orbiting Earth (Getty Images/janiecbros)

It's too late to clean space junk

Matthew Rozsa
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"A Trip to the Moon." French movie by Georges Melies, 1902. Space rocket hits moon in the eye. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Scientists elated by lunar junk impact

Matthew Rozsa
Galactic trash orbiting Earth (Getty Images/janiecbros)

Space junk will give Earth a ring

Matthew Rozsa
Space junk around Earth (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Earth's growing space junk problem

Daniel Karel
The Infrared Astronomical Satellite, or IRAS, was the first mission to put a telescope in space to survey the sky in infrared. (NASA)

When satellites collide

Nicole Karlis
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Picture taken from the Apollo XI Lunar Module (LM) showing the flag of the United States and the footprints of astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin on the surface of the moon, 21 July 1969. (- / NASA / AFP)

Should "Moon history" be preserved?

Nicole Karlis
(AP/NASA)

Oldest human object in space

Alice Gorman - The Conversation
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