Space is a contested area. World powers and private corporations alike are launching more and more rockets and satellites ...

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

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

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

Greenhouse gases are doing more than warming our planet — they're reshaping space itself. As emissions cool and shrink the ...

as the skies above our planet are slowly filling with floating space trash and experts are rushing to find a way to clear away the worst of it. Now, a team from Japan has successfully approached ...

But space is getting crowded. Ever since the Space Age dawned in the late 1950s, humans have been filling the skies with trash. The accumulation of dead satellites, chunks of old rockets ...

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

It’s garbage. And there are millions of pieces of it.” Millions of pieces of debris are circling the Earth and colliding at the speed and intensity of a bullet. Pieces of space junk coming ...

I live in a fairly small home, but the most compact space of all is the kitchen. It's so small that there isn't enough room ...