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

The last two SpaceX test flights both exploded over the Caribbean, causing debris to land on a number of islands.

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the ...

Credit: NASA According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently orbiting ...

INCREDIBLE footage shows wreckage from space hurtling towards the Earth before part of it crashes into a garden in Poland. The burning debris came from Elon Musk's Falcon 9 space rocket that was ...

Debris from a Space X Falcon 9 rocket lit up skies across Europe before crashing into Poland. The flaming ball was possibly the remains of a rocket booster, an astronomer says. The Kenyan ...

But this week’s two space debris-related events in the Bahamas and Europe point to how successful rocket launches can also leave their mark on Earth. They also highlight how the rise in the ...