There are a lot of satellites, and a lot of trash, around our planet — and the quantities are only going to get higher.

A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

Space debris grows rapidly, threatening satellites and future missions if cleanup efforts don't intensify now.

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

"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the ... a deeper dive into the problem and estimated the knock-on effects of this reduced drag on safety of orbital traffic.

Alizee Zimmermann and her husband were rinsing off their dive gear on a relatively muggy January evening when the sky ...

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 ...

A new study finds that climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in ...

It is poised to exacerbate the growing problem of space debris, potentially shrinking the usable space for satellite in low Earth orbit ... could diminish available orbital space by anywhere ...