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

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

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

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

As global warming continues, researchers are warning that there will be problems for satellites in low Earth orbit.

Randeep Bubbra explores the legal, regulatory, and technological challenges of space collisions, liability, and the need for ...

Low Earth orbit, the region of space stretching from ... crises are often ignored until they escalate into disasters. Space debris is no exception, and failing to address it urgently could have ...

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

Learn about the precarious state of satellites orbiting Earth, as greenhouse gas pollution puts them in danger of colliding ...

Satellites connect people around the world but they also interfere with astronomers’ views of the cosmos. There are ways to ...

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