Where does all that space junk go? And what does climate change have to do with it? The answers are on this episode of The ...

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

This aims to map sources of water on the Moon to shed ... Feb. 5, 2025 — There's a 26 per cent annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a busy flight ...

India's POEM-4 experiment module burned up and fell into the Indian Ocean to avoid becoming space debris. An Indian ...

Richard Jacklin, Commercial Lead at Plextek, discusses the next frontier in space debris detection - mmWave radar technology.

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

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Space junk is a very real problem. It might sound silly to think that the space around ...

Growing concentrations of greenhouse gases are making the upper atmosphere thinner, decreasing its ability to pull space junk out of orbit. As a result, far fewer satellites will be able to safely ...

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 ...