In Gravity, the 2013 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, astronauts Matt Kowalski and Ryan Stone are on a spacewalk when they are struck by an expanding cloud of debris, tearing Stone away from the ...

The recent discovery of debris from SpaceX’s Starship rocket in Bahamian waters has raised concerns about the potential dangers of space junk landing in The Bahamas. While the future is undeniably in ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Scientists are designing a satellite and instruments capable of detecting space debris as small as 1 centimeter, less than one-half inch. Debris that small, which cannot ...

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.

This reduction stems from the way climate change affects the atmosphere; warming at the surface level results in cooling of the upper atmosphere, decreasing air density, and lessening atmospheric drag ...

"The light show was completely silent — we didn’t hear anything. But the reflection on the water from the burning debris was ...

Social media posts reported seeing what is believed to be space junk over southern New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Astronomer David Finlay said footage led him to believe ...

That's because space will become more littered with debris as climate change lessens nature's way of cleaning it up. Part of the greenhouse effect that warms the air near Earth's surface also cools ...

23, Ewan Wright, a doctoral student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and his colleagues calculated the likelihood of space debris from rocket launches falling into ...

By the end of the century, a shrinking atmosphere could create a minefield for satellites, like those deployed by SpaceX's ...

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 ...