Where does all that space junk go? And what does climate change have to do with it? The answers are on this episode of The ...

A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

More than 130 million pieces of space debris orbit Earth. Collisions with spacecraft risks disrupting critical navigation and ...

Space is home to over 130 million pieces of debris, and some could cause damage According to a report published by the European Space Agency, there are now around 130 million pieces of space debris ...

The problem posed by human-made junk in space worsened significantly in 2024, according to a new report by the European Space ...

About 25,000 are pieces of obsolete satellites, rocket parts and debris — space junk orbiting out of control and posing a threat to the satellites people need. Nine in 10 useful satellites are ...

"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites over the next 100 years." Growing concentrations of greenhouse gases are ...

It is poised to exacerbate the growing problem of space debris, potentially shrinking the usable space for satellite in low Earth orbit, according to a new MIT study. Researchers have calculated ...

A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from weather tracking to broadband internet to national defense. A photo ...

Floridians across the coast witnessed flaming space debris falling from the sky. So, what would happen if a piece of a rocket, or a satellite, or even an asteroid hit your home or car? It is rare ...

the Kenya Space Agency identified the "red-hot" object as a piece of space junk that survived reentry, indicating that it was still trying to identify the originator of the mysterious ring.