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

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

As Earth's orbit becomes populated with more crafts and devices, researchers are looking for ways to detect and track ...

Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...

The quest to conquer Earth’s space junk problem These events are not isolated. Across the world, from Texas to Saudi Arabia, from Cape Town to the Amazon rainforest, objects launched into low ...

Greenhouse gases are doing more than warming our planet — they're reshaping space itself. As emissions cool and shrink the ...

A new study warns that the future could bring a sharp increase in space debris as satellites start to get stuck in Earth ... Increased emissions over the next century, the researchers found, will ...

Climate change is altering conditions in near-Earth space, which could limit the number of satellites that can reliably ...

Climate change is wreaking havoc on Earth – but soon it will even be messing up its orbit, scientists have revealed. It is poised to exacerbate the growing problem of space debris, potentially ...

Aerospace engineers found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways that, over time, will reduce the number of satellites that can safely operate there.