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

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

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

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

Japanese ADRAS-J satellite captures historic close-up of space debris, advancing efforts to tackle orbital junk ...

A new study finds that climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in ...

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

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

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

Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...

between altitudes of around 200 to 1,000 kilometers (125 to 620 miles) before conditions become unsafe. At a certain capacity ...