This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Earth’s orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are ...
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 ...
Collisions are a growing risk as space gets more crowded, and greenhouse gas emissions could make things worse. Greenhouse ...
Space debris is a growing problem, both in Earth's orbit and down on the ground. One startup has brought us a step closer to ...
As this upper atmosphere shrinks, this could reduce the force that pulls old satellites back to Earth and burns them up. Space junk could therefore linger in orbit much longer. Researchers at ...
There's a scene in the film Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey's character flies his spaceplane up to meet a mothership ...
SpaceX's latest Starship flight test explosion raises concerns about space junk affecting Earth's stratosphere and ozone ...
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 ...
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