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

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Earth’s orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are ...

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

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

A new study warns that climate change, already posing significant challenges on Earth, could soon worsen the problem of ...

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

Space debris consists of defunct artificial materials ... The most famous example of a collision happened in 2009, between the American Iridium 33 satellite and the defunct Russian Kosmos 2251.

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

While some space objects burn up completely in the ... of its speed), the study estimates that the likelihood of debris colliding with a plane is roughly 1 in 430,000 each year.

MIT researchers calculate that global warming may reduce the available space for satellites in low Earth orbit by anywhere ...