Asteroids colliding with Earth might seem farfetched, but the planetary threat is real. Just this year news broke of an ...

The burn permit suspension went into effect just after midnight Monday, and prohibits all residential outdoor burning of ...

"The cascading effect of collisions between space debris, known as Kessler Syndrome, creates even more debris, increasing the risk of further collisions", the ESA told Euronews. "This makes it ...

The report says that if space debris buildup is not controlled soon ... creating a cascading effect," the ESA says in a summary. The agency estimates at least three satellites or rocket bodies ...

Space junk comprises of various kinds of bits and ... which we call the Kessler effect. What's more, ESA’s debris modeling software tool, MASTER, shows that in the LEO range of around 340 ...

Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere ... to the point where we are having a real effect on the environment both in space and in the upper atmosphere," astrophysicist ...

creating a cascading effect. This means that not adding new debris is no longer enough: the space debris environment has to be actively cleaned up.

where does all that space junk go? And what does climate change have to do with it? Last month, a team of aerospace engineers at MIT released their findings from a research study on the effects of ...

At its annual space debris conference ... pieces of debris — a chain-reaction phenomenon known as the Kessler effect. "That would be very disastrous and very damaging, because then whole ...

A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from weather tracking to broadband internet to national defense. A photo ...

The same greenhouse effect warming the lower atmosphere also ... lessening the drag that normally pulls space debris down towards Earth, where it burns up upon re-entry. Consequently, a less ...

Typically, the upper atmosphere slowly pulls space debris out of Earth's lower orbit. But the cooling and contracting effect is causing less drag in the thermosphere, causing the space junk to ...