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 ...

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

New research, published in Nature Sustainability on Monday, found that if emissions don’t fall ... atmospheric density is the ...

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

Space junk is a "persistent hazard ... problem for the long-term use of Earth’s orbital space, a study published Monday in Nature Sustainability found. While increasing levels of human-caused ...

A new study warns that the future could bring a sharp increase in space debris as satellites start ... the researchers found, will likely contribute to reduced carrying capacity in low Earth orbit.

While airlines do all they can to make flying safe, there is one threat to aviation that even they can't do much about: space junk ... such as that found in the northeastern United States ...

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.

With around 8,000 satellites currently in low-Earth orbit, Andrew Howarth, the U of C's manager of space research projects, said space debris is a ... of concept in 2021 found CASSIOPE's radio ...

As a result, far fewer satellites will be able to safely operate in near-Earth space in the coming decades, with local space debris emergencies ... orbital altitudes and found that some of these ...

Parker’s study found that in a future ... feasibly fit around all the debris stuck in space. Nearly all of them would need to squeeze into the bottom of low Earth orbit, where they would ...