Learn about the precarious state of satellites orbiting Earth, as greenhouse gas pollution puts them in danger of colliding ...

A failed launch left a batch of Starlink satellites in the wrong orbit last year, and it appears that a fragment of one fell ...

Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Earth’s orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are ...

The current state of Earth's climate has no recorded precedent. The consequences of the sheer volume of anthropogenic ...

Climate change could threaten the future use of satellites and significantly reduce the number of spacecraft that can safety orbit Earth, according to new research.

A recent MIT study reveals that climate change is exacerbating the accumulation of space debris, potentially reducing satellite capacity in low Earth orbit by up to 82% by century's end. As upper ...

But research using modern satellite data has revealed that ... density is the only thing that naturally pulls space junk out of orbit. Earth’s atmosphere doesn’t suddenly give way to the ...

A new study finds that climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in ...