In a potential step toward sending small spacecraft to the stars, researchers have developed an ultra-thin, ultra-reflective ...

A week after a SpaceX crew module returned four astronauts from the ISS, their luggage module seems to have caused a wild ...

As global warming continues, the upper atmosphere will cool and become less dense, reducing the force which usually pulls space debris back to Earth and cluttering the orbit. MIT researchers ...

“There’s a lot of objects in space; satellites, pieces of debris from satellites that have either hit each other or broken up. There are tens of thousands of objects just in low earth orbit ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Earth’s orbit is absolutely littered with space junk, and every new rocket we send ...

Officials have implemented safety measures, including sand bags, concrete barriers and diverting debris to protect the burn scar areas from further damage. At a news conference Wednesday morning ...

The ongoing surge of greenhouse gas emissions in the near-Earth environment could cause dramatic declines in the number of satellites orbiting the planet by the end of the century, a new study has ...

But as the atmosphere becomes less dense, it reduces drag on space debris, allowing it to linger in orbit for longer — and extending the lifespan it has to crash into other objects. Collisions ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. Part of the greenhouse effect that warms the ...

Space junk is a "persistent hazard," scientists say. Climate change could threaten the future use of satellites and significantly reduce the number of spacecraft that can safety orbit Earth ...

SpaceX's Starship exploded after its latest launch to space, causing flight ... when they saw it: flaming debris out their window. The young couple, both college students in Wisconsin, told ...

Here's How 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 ...