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 ...

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.

The question of accountability looms largest: when debris crashes to the earth, who is responsible and how can they be held accountable? Despite being a critical issue in space governance ...

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 ...

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the ...

Climate change isn’t just affecting Earth, it’s reshaping space as well. A new MIT study reveals that rising greenhouse gas ...