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 ...

Only around 1,950 of these satellites remain operational while the rest have become space debris. These now-defunct satellites are joined by thousands of bits of debris, which are collectively ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. Part of the greenhouse effect that warms the ...

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 ...

The return to Earth of Boeing's Starliner astronauts stuck on the International Space Station inched closer as their replacements arrived to Florida for their relief flight this week. The quartet ...

Here's How The problem is that atmospheric density is the only thing that naturally pulls space junk out of orbit. Earth’s atmosphere doesn’t suddenly give way to the vacuum of space but gets ...

Speculation abounded online about whether the fireball was space junk or a meteor burning up as it entered the atmosphere. Facebook user Anthony Davis captured images of a fireball streaking ...

Social media posts reported seeing what is believed to be space junk over southern New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Astronomer David Finlay said footage led him to believe ...

Space Force officials would not say what’s on board other than a Nasa experiment to gauge the effects of radiation on materials. Its predawn touchdown on Friday at Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...

The U.S. military's mini space shuttle, the X-37B, returned after a 434-day mission. Launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in December 2023 by SpaceX, the secretive unmanned mission ended at ...

The quartet assigned to the SpaceX Crew-10 mission arrived to KSC having flown into the former space shuttle landing facility Thursday afternoon. They are slated to climb aboard the Crew Dragon ...