Every once in a while, we hear a story of some sort of trash nugget from an airplane or defunct space equipment falling in someone’s yard or even ... station ejected the debris back in 2021 ...

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

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 ...

As global warming continues, the upper atmosphere will cool and become less dense, reducing the force which usually pulls space debris back to Earth and cluttering the orbit. MIT researchers ...

"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." Growing concentrations of greenhouse gases are ...

You can get in touch with Ian by emailing [email protected]. Languages: English. Falling space junk produced by rocket launches poses a risk to the aviation industry—with a roughly one-in ...

Space junk is a "persistent hazard," scientists say. Climate change could threaten the future use of satellites and significantly reduce the number of spacecraft that can safety orbit Earth ...

Floridians across the coast witnessed flaming space debris falling from the sky. So, what would happen if a piece of a rocket, or a satellite, or even an asteroid hit your home or car? It is rare ...

While airlines do all they can to make flying safe, there is one threat to aviation that even they can't do much about: space junk. A group of researchers from the University of British Columbia ...

Here's How 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 ...

A large, slow-moving fireball has been filmed moving across southern Australian skies on Saturday night. Social media posts reported seeing what is believed to be space junk over southern New ...