A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 74 satellites from California early Saturday morning (March 15), then came back to Earth ...

Objects that orbit the planet are dragged down by the ... “And so you can get a chain reaction where all the satellites are hitting each other, breaking up, and creating more and more debris.” ...

A new study finds that climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in ...

This all makes China potentially unpredictable ... China has approximately 1,000 satellites in orbit as of now, marking a dramatic increase from around 40 satellites in 2010, according to Lerch.

Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth ... gas continues it may reduce the available space for satellites in low Earth orbit by anywhere from one-third to 82 percent ...

All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the problem with space junk. New research, published in Nature Sustainability on ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth ... gas continues it may reduce the available space for satellites in low Earth orbit by anywhere from one-third to 82% by the ...