In 2021, a Starlink satellite and OneWeb spacecraft came dangerously close to colliding in orbit.  While both companies’ ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...

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The Kuiper Belt is a band on the outer edge of the Solar System made up of space’s odds and ends: comets, dwarf planets, and ...

Climate change is wreaking havoc on Earth. Soon it will mess up its orbit - Global warming’s effects are even stretching into ...

Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...

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

Scientists have warned that greenhouse gas emissions will result in less space junk being burned up – and more debris ...

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 […] ...

Climate change is altering conditions in near-Earth space, which could limit the number of satellites that can reliably ...

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