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

Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases decrease the atmosphere's ability to devour space junk, a new study finds.

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

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

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

The quest to conquer Earth’s space junk problem These events are not isolated. Across the world, from Texas to Saudi Arabia, from Cape Town to the Amazon rainforest, objects launched into low ...

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 likely to become a norm, a new study suggests.

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

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

It's official - space is a war-fighting domain. Who says so? The British, the Americans, Nato and, among many other nations, ...