The European Space Agency (ESA) has issued a warning about all of the space junk surrounding Earth and how it could cause ...

The threat of an asteroid hitting Earth is always there, but the danger of falling space junk is growing into a crisis.

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

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

The problem of debris in Earth orbit is getting worse. According to the European Space Agency's (ESA) annual Space ...

Across Texas on Saturday night, space watchers saw a burning ball produce an evaporating ring, then wondered what it could be ...

Scientists say defunct satellites and spent rocket stages returning to Earth, from the thousands launched every year, can be ...

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

With more than 130 million pieces of debris now trapped in orbit around Earth, the European Space Agency (ESA) expects that figure to rise. Combined with the increasing frequency of commercial ...

A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile ... in low-Earth orbit. [Photo: NASA] Most satellites are located within low Earth orbit, or around 400 to 1,000 kilometers ...

The first four humans to orbit over Earth's north and south poles have safely returned to Earth.

A new report released April 1 by the European Space Agency sheds light on space pollution surrounding our planet — how bad the problem is, and what we need to do to keep Earth orbits clean enough to ...