There are a lot of satellites, and a lot of trash, around our planet — and the quantities are only going to get higher.

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

The ESA hopes we'll someday treat Earth's orbit as an international nature preserve: 'What you bring in with you, you must ...

"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." ...

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

It is poised to exacerbate the growing problem of space debris, potentially shrinking the usable space for satellite in low Earth orbit ... which monitors orbital debris. That junk includes ...

"MIT team found that orbital capacity is ... pieces of debris are circling the Earth and colliding at the speed and intensity of a bullet. Pieces of space junk coming from past crashes and rocket ...

While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...

Growing concentrations of greenhouse gases are making the upper atmosphere thinner, decreasing its ability to pull space junk ... orbital traffic. "Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth ...