Multiple residents across Northern California have reached out to KCRA 3 after seeing an object that looks like a meteor ...

We know it’s a problem, and many are working on solutions that could help the junk fall back to Earth. Now, though, a controversial new paper warns that falling space junk could actually weaken ...

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

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

A dazzling display of sparks streaking across the night sky caught the attention of South Floridians as remnants of a SpaceX rocket burned up upon reentry, sending debris plummeting toward Earth.

If we don’t manage this activity carefully and work to reduce our emissions, space could become too crowded, leading to more collisions and debris,” Parker added. Over 10,000 satellites currently ...

Dolphins surrounded the SpaceX capsule after it landed in the ocean on the NASA astronauts' successful journey home after ...

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

Ever since the Space Age dawned in the late 1950s, humans have been filling the skies with trash ... to thousands of years to fall. The higher outermost reaches of Earth’s influence are referred ...

2:10 Deadly risks of falling space junk on the rise according to Canadian study Circling Earth are millions of pieces of debris about one-ninth of an inch (3 millimetres) and larger — the width ...

Fortunately, the risk of space debris is not an everyday ... object on the surface of the Earth or to aircraft in flight." While the odds of being impacted by falling space debris are still ...

As a result, far fewer satellites will be able to safely operate in near-Earth space in the coming decades, with local space debris emergencies likely to become a norm, a new study suggests.