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.

"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." ...

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

Beyond the chance of "randomly falling space junk" killing people on Earth, "collisions in space ... What can be done about the orbital debris problem? The U.S. Federal Communications Commission ...

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

"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 ...

Environmental activists often say that humans have left an indelible mark on the planet we occupy and evidence of our existence will remain long after we’re gone. However, there is a growing problem ...

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 ...