Space is getting crowded — humans have now placed over 20,000 satellites into orbit since the start of the space age, and ...

A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pileup—causing ripple effects across everything from ...

Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases decrease the atmosphere's ability to devour space junk, a new study finds.

As global warming continues, researchers are warning that there will be problems for satellites in low Earth orbit.

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to ...

Astroscale Japan Inc. has announced that it has successfully approached a piece of orbital debris traveling at a high speed ...

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the ...

About a fifth are inactive, simply orbiting as as space junk. Over the last couple of decades, hundreds of these dead satellites have collided to create millions of pieces of shrapnel. That ...

The ever-growing issue of space debris worsens with each passing moment; some fragments could be on a collision course back ...

A new study warns that the future could bring a sharp increase in space debris as satellites start to get stuck in Earth’s orbit because of climate change. The study, recently published in Nature ...

Dozens of people have reported what is believed to be burning space junk moving across southern Australian skies on Saturday night.

Climate change isn’t just affecting Earth, it’s reshaping space as well. A new MIT study reveals that rising greenhouse gas ...