Experts remain highly skeptical, questioning the financial feasibility and the technological limitations of running orbital ...
Japan is launching wooden satellites into outer space to reduce the atmospheric pollution created by metal satellites as they ...
Thousands of expendable satellites are falling into the Earth's atmosphere and turning it into a polluted "crematorium." ...
On February 20, 2025, the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaked across Europe, and scientists in Germany tracked ...
Vulcan Centaur is supposed to launch more than a dozen missions for the U.S. Space Force this year, but those flights could ...
Elon Musk wants to launch a million satellites, but researchers say global warming is changing the upper atmosphere in ways that makes space junk linger.
It’s unclear if it's even feasible, but it would be a danger to space exploration, astronomy, and even our health.
Since 1971, space agencies have crashed retired spacecraft at Point Nemo, raising concerns about ocean debris and the ISS ...
Planned ‘megaconstellations’ of satellites could cause unforeseen harm to the ozone layer and climate systems. Global regulation is needed before it’s too late.
The environmental impact of SpaceX's planned gargantuan mega-constellation is still being grappled with, but the FCC isn’t required to study it ...
Direct detection of lithium from a SpaceX rocket reentry offers new evidence that metal pollution from space debris could ...
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