While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...

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

We know it’s a problem, and many are working on solutions that could help the junk fall back to Earth. Now, though, a controversial new paper warns that falling space junk could actually weaken ...

A dazzling display of sparks streaking across the night sky caught the attention of South Floridians as remnants of a SpaceX rocket burned up upon reentry, sending debris plummeting toward Earth.

Here's How The problem is that atmospheric density is the only thing that naturally pulls space junk out of ... of years to fall. The higher outermost reaches of Earth’s influence are referred ...

The current state of Earth's climate has no recorded precedent. The consequences of the sheer volume of anthropogenic ...

A SpaceX rocket exploded shortly after it was launched from Texas on Thursday, grounding flights and triggering warnings ...

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

Falling debris also challenges the laws that ... introduced “absolute liability” for damage caused by space objects on the earth. Unlike fault-based liability, absolute liability requires ...

RELATED: What is space junk and why is it ... reentry and falls back to Earth. Even the smallest of objects can create problems for an aircraft. An object falling from space roughly the weight ...

Fortunately, the risk of space debris is not an everyday ... object on the surface of the Earth or to aircraft in flight." While the odds of being impacted by falling space debris are still ...