There are a lot of satellites, and a lot of trash, around our planet — and the quantities are only going to get higher.

Space debris grows rapidly, threatening satellites and future missions if cleanup efforts don't intensify now.

The Earth is under attack – from space junk. Tons of pieces old satellites and rockets are falling out of orbit sparking ...

A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

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

More than 130 million pieces of space debris orbit Earth. Collisions with spacecraft risks disrupting critical navigation and ...

While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...

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 ...

The problem is that atmospheric density is the only thing that naturally pulls space junk out of orbit. Earth’s atmosphere doesn’t suddenly give way to the vacuum of space but gets ...

Climate change is wreaking havoc on Earth – but soon it will even be messing up its orbit, scientists have revealed. It is poised to exacerbate the growing problem of space debris, potentially ...