CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--The moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater that could fit several semitractor-trailers. The leftover rocket will smash ...

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and limiting so-called space junk in Earth orbit could help to stop space debris orbiting the moon and Mars. A Perspective piece has been published in the journal Frontiers in Space Technologies.

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The amount of both space junk and satellites orbiting the Earth now, the moon soon, and Mars eventually, poses a massive, unseen threat to people on the ground, wrote three scientists in a commentary.