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

"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites ...

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

At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. This ...

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

Greenhouse gases are doing more than warming our planet — they're reshaping space itself. As emissions cool and shrink the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Space junk is a "persistent hazard ... problem for the long-term use of Earth’s orbital space, a study published Monday in Nature Sustainability found. While increasing levels of human-caused ...

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.