Collisions are a growing risk as space gets more crowded, and greenhouse gas emissions could make things worse. Greenhouse ...

By the end of the century, a shrinking atmosphere could create a minefield for satellites, like those deployed by SpaceX's ...

There is a 26 percent chance every year that an out-of-control rocket will fall through busy airspace, researchers calculate.

EARTH can once again start making plans for December 2032. Nasa has announced “city-killer” asteroid YR4 is unlikely to collide with our planet that month, and has a 99.9961 per cent ...

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

The risk is that as objects collide and break up, Earth's air space will fill up with a wall of space junk that could shred anything we try to launch. That includes not only manned space missions ...

Millions of tiny objects, invisible to the current tracking systems, are hurtling through orbit at incredible speeds of about 17,500 mph.

This could lead to airport closures, flight delays and cancellations and a roughly one in 430,000 chance of space junk colliding with a plane mid-air in those regions. The warnings come amid a ...

The sky is quite literally falling,” the author of a recent study and MIT graduate said over alleged changes in the earth’s atmosphere. Human-induced greenhouse gas emissions […] ...

But space is getting crowded ... disabling your ad-blocker to allow ads on Grist. Here's How “The debris from any collision could go on to destroy more satellites,” said Jonathan McDowell ...