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

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

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 ...

To better understand space debris and its risks, Euronews Tech Talks spoke with Quentin Verspieren, the space safety programme coordinator at the European Space Agency (ESA). Space debris consists of ...

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 ...

Now, a team from Japan has successfully approached an abandoned rocket orbiting above the Earth, to test a new ... each country's defunct space junk from orbit. Its biggest test could come when ...

Space junk is a "persistent hazard," scientists say. Climate change could threaten the future use of satellites and significantly reduce the number of spacecraft that can safety orbit Earth ...

As this upper atmosphere shrinks, this could reduce the force that pulls old satellites back to Earth and burns them up. Space junk could therefore linger in orbit much longer. Researchers at the ...

That junk includes results of old space crashes and parts of rockets with most of it too small to be tracked. There are 11,905 satellites circling Earth — 7,356 in low orbit — according to the ...

The problem is that atmospheric density is the only thing that naturally pulls space junk out of orbit. Earth’s atmosphere doesn’t suddenly give way to the vacuum of space, but gets ...

The problem is that atmospheric density is the only thing that naturally pulls space junk out of orbit. Earth’s atmosphere doesn’t suddenly give way to the vacuum of space, but gets ...