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.

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

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

The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...