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.

The ESA hopes we'll someday treat Earth's orbit as an international nature preserve: 'What you bring in with you, you must ...

Climate change is wreaking havoc on Earth – but soon it will even be messing up its orbit, scientists have revealed.It is poised to exacerbate the growing problem of space debris, potentially ...

Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases decrease the atmosphere's ability to devour space junk, a new study finds.

Environmental activists often say that humans have left an indelible mark on the planet we occupy and evidence of our ...

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

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

The approximately eight-minute-long film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" attempts to answer its conjecture with supportive statistics and orbital projections ... things in Earth orbit tend ...

Growing concentrations of greenhouse gases are making the upper atmosphere thinner, decreasing its ability to pull space junk ... orbital traffic. "Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth ...