There’s a buzz in the Bay Area and beyond over a mysterious light in the sky Monday night seen by many and captured on video ...

Multiple residents across Northern California have reached out to KCRA 3 after seeing an object that looks like a meteor ...

"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Earth’s orbit is absolutely littered with space junk, and every new rocket we send ...

Climate change is wreaking havoc on Earth – but soon it will even be messing up its orbit, scientists have revealed. It is poised to exacerbate the growing problem of space debris, potentially ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

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, but gets ...

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 ...

The question of accountability looms largest: when debris crashes to the earth, who is responsible and how can they be held accountable? Despite being a critical issue in space governance ...

As it builds up, the pollution causes Earth’s upper ... burns up as it falls through the atmosphere. But as the atmosphere becomes less dense, it reduces drag on space debris, allowing it ...

While some space objects burn up completely in the atmosphere, because of their large size, rocket bodies are much likelier to break up into debris that survives reentry and falls back to Earth.

As a result, far fewer satellites will be able to safely operate in near-Earth space in the coming decades, with local space debris emergencies likely to become a norm, a new study suggests.