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

As Earth's orbit becomes populated with more crafts and devices, researchers are looking for ways to detect and track ...

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

“What these radars do is they track objects in space,” said Ed Lu the chief technology officer at LeoLabs. “There’s a lot of objects in space; satellites, pieces of debris from satellites ...

"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites ...

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

The work is part of a U.S. government effort to track space debris. It is based on work supported in part by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Advanced Research ...

That junk includes results of old space crashes and parts of rockets ... circling Earth — 7,356 in low orbit — according to the tracking website Orbiting Now. Satellites are critical for ...

L3Harris secured a $90m follow-on contract from the US Space Force Space Systems Command to continue the modernisation of SDA ...

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 ...