Old satellites and debris pose a danger to space travel. An international research team with participation from Würzburg is working on a satellite that cleans up space—inspired by the animal kingdom.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Left unchecked, the space around our planet could get so cluttered with debris that we might not be able to use some orbits ...

Back in 1979, Houston became home to a program that searched for ways to create less debris in space and track and remove existing debris. More than four decades later, NASA has called the growing ...

Learn how to clean up your smartphone's storage without losing data, improve performance, and extend battery life with our step-by-step guide. Is your phone constantly running out of storage? Are apps ...

Unlike some past demonstrations, ELSA-d isn't designed to sweep up all those little bits of past missions. Rather, Astroscale hopes to make the ELSA system a part of future space missions. Share on ...

A satellite docking system with gecko-inspired silicone surfaces uses van der Waals forces to capture space debris and move it to safe disposal orbits. (Nanowerk News) In 1957, the former Soviet Union ...