A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pileup—causing ripple effects across everything from ...

The city of San Antonio grew up to the retired attorney's property, and he'll fight to keep his unusual art installation.

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 ...

A new study warns that the future could bring a sharp increase in space debris as satellites start to get stuck in Earth’s orbit because of climate change. The study, recently published in Nature ...

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 ...

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 cluttering the orbit. MIT researchers ...

Only around 1,950 of these satellites remain operational while the rest have become space debris. These now-defunct satellites are joined by thousands of bits of debris, which are collectively ...

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 ...

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

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.

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