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 ...

At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. This ...

Many space people are worried about a space junk catastrophe called the Kessler Syndrome. Lower orbits reduce the risk of the ...

There's a scene in the film Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey's character flies his spaceplane up to meet a mothership ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aerospace engineers found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways that, over time, will reduce the number of satellites that can safely operate there.