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How climate change could make Earth's space junk problem even worse
"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites ...
Mysterious object seen soaring across skies in Northern California was a 'spacecraft reentry'
Multiple residents across Northern California have reached out to KCRA 3 after seeing an object that looks like a meteor ...
‘Space junk’ is clogging the atmosphere—and it’s going to make weather forecasts and internet access much worse
A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from ...
The Sky Is Falling – And It’s Leaving Space Junk Stuck in Orbit
Greenhouse gases are doing more than warming our planet — they're reshaping space itself. As emissions cool and shrink the ...
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Scientists Say This 1 Thing Can Make Flying More Dangerous—With 'Catastrophic' Consequences
While airlines do all they can to make flying safe, there is one threat to aviation that even they can't do much about: space ...
How a University of Calgary satellite is helping the effort to dodge space debris
As Earth's orbit becomes populated with more crafts and devices, researchers are looking for ways to detect and track ...
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What meteorites tell us about their birthplace in space
Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
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Space debris is falling from the skies. We need to tackle this growing danger
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 ...
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Earth's sea ice hits all-time low, NASA satellites reveal
To make matters worse, NASA scientists also discovered that, this year, summer ice in the Antarctic retreated to 764,000 square miles (1.98 million square kilometers) as of March 1, tying for "the ...
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How climate change could make Earth's space junk problem even worse
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.