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

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 ...

That's because space will become more littered with debris as climate change lessens nature's way of cleaning it up. Part of ...

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

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

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 ...

Collisions are a growing risk as space gets more crowded, and greenhouse gas emissions could make things worse. Greenhouse ...

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 ...