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

A spacecraft has successfully closed in on a massive chunk of metal zipping around Earth, capturing images of it—a big leap ...

Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases decrease the atmosphere's ability to devour space junk, a new study finds.

"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 ... satellites and old space junk encounter less drag as they hurtle around the planet. They therefore stay afloat longer ...

as well as soccer from around the world. As global warming continues, the upper atmosphere will cool and become less dense, reducing the force which usually pulls space debris back to Earth and ...

TUCSON, AZ (AZFamily) — About an hour and a half drive east of Tucson, nestled out in the desert, is a unique structure whose ...

[Photo: NASA] Most satellites are located within low Earth orbit, or around 400 to 1,000 kilometers ... It’s essentially the atmosphere’s natural space junk cleaning protocol—but climate ...

Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit ...

30, 2024 — More accurate orbit predictions for satellites and space debris as well as a better understanding of the water masses present on Earth ... star that rotates around its axis at ...

It's official - space is a war-fighting domain. Who says so? The British, the Americans, Nato and, among many other nations, ...