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 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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

China’s satellite megaconstellation plans could clog low Earth orbit with large spent rocket stages, analysts warn. Those ...

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 ...

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 ...