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

Space is getting crowded — humans have now placed over 20,000 satellites into orbit since the start of the space age, and ...

The direction to a piece of space debris would be determined by an on-board sensor that simultaneously measures electric and magnetic wave fields to detect signals emanating from the space object. A ...

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

Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...

The explosion released elements heavier than iron—like gold and platinum—through a process known as rapid neutron capture ...

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 ...

A shrinking thermosphere means less drag, which could hinder the natural removal of space debris. MIT team found that orbital ...

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 ...

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 ...

About a fifth are inactive, simply orbiting as as space junk. Over the last couple of decades, hundreds of these dead satellites have collided to create millions of pieces of shrapnel. That ...