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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 ...

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 ...

A new MIT study looks at how greenhouse gases are affecting our ability to operate satellites. Here's why the results are ...

There's a scene in the film Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey's character flies his spaceplane up to meet a mothership ...

Climate change isn't just causing havoc on Earth, it's beginning to mess with space too. New research reveals that ...

Floridians across the coast witnessed flaming space debris falling from the sky on Thursday. There have been similar ...

Dozens of people have reported what is believed to be burning space junk moving across southern Australian skies on Saturday night.

The ongoing surge of greenhouse gas emissions in the near-Earth environment could cause dramatic declines in the number of satellites orbiting the planet by the end of the century, a new study has ...