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A puncture caused by space junk has been discovered on a robotic arm outside the International Space Station.
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For years, some have speculated that this unusual piece of space junk is actually an extraterrestrial device.
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A space junk disaster was narrowly avoided this week when two large objects passed close to one another.
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Zayell Gillespie and two friends encountered something very strange over Nottinghamshire, England in 2016.
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If successful, the mission will be the first ever to remove a piece of space junk from Earth's orbit.
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A spacecraft has successfully demonstrated how a harpoon can be used to clean up Earth's orbit.
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As if space junk wasn't already enough of a problem, a war in space could litter the planet's orbit with tons of debris.
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Airbus has been developing a new type of harpoon in an effort to reduce the build-up of space junk in orbit.
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A new study by researchers in China has put forward a novel new way of tackling the problem of space junk.
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A French scientist is working on a novel new way to keep Earth's orbit clear of defunct satellites.
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The experimental tether had been designed to help solve the problem of space junk in Earth's orbit.
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Scientists have warned that space debris collisions could have the potential to provoke armed conflict.
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The space station performed an emergency maneuver last month to avoid a piece of orbiting debris.
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New self-guided robots could soon be used to help assess the threat posed by items of space debris.
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A team of Australian physicists have come up with a new way to deal with the ever-growing field of junk.
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The electrodynamic tether will be used as a way to help reduce the large amount of space junk in orbit.