Just as your house accumulates dust and trash, your computer gets cluttered with unnecessary, often automatically generated, files known as “system junk.” The files pile up gradually and then start ...

The Perimeter Security Detection System (PIDS) fence at JFK Airport . The $100 million “state-of-the-art’’ security system at JFK airport is just “an expensive piece of junk with no value as a ...

The final frontier is rapidly becoming a junkyard. Decades of satellite launches and space missions have left the Earth’s orbit filled with pieces of junk such as fuel tanks, lost tools and parts of ...

The latest effort to clean up the planet's growing problem of space junk, RemoveDEBRIS, has been deployed from the International Space Station (ISS). In September it will begin simulated tests of ...

Government budget woes, the efficiency of the Internet and the staggering volume of junk mail have rightfully buried the U.S. Postal Service, say environmental groups and budget analysts who call the ...

The German armed forces want to keep a closer eye on space in the future. A new system to track space junk orbiting Earth and send out early warnings about potential threats has begun work. German ...