Space is getting crowded — humans have now placed over 20,000 satellites into orbit since the start of the space age, and ...

A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pileup—causing ripple effects across everything from ...

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

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

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the ...

As global warming continues, researchers are warning that there will be problems for satellites in low Earth orbit.

Astroscale Japan Inc. has announced that it has successfully approached a piece of orbital debris traveling at a high speed ...

Learn about the precarious state of satellites orbiting Earth, as greenhouse gas pollution puts them in danger of colliding ...

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

About a fifth are inactive, simply orbiting as as space junk. Over the last couple of decades, hundreds of these dead satellites have collided to create millions of pieces of shrapnel. That ...

In the first few months of 2025, there's been a flurry of private venture space missions. Some have been successful, such as ...