Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA's AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard the International Space Station, researchers ...

Greenhouse gases are eroding the safe carrying capacity for low Earth orbit, a new study concludes. Moreover, the authors ...

Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA's AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard the International Space Station, researchers publicly released the ...

MIT aerospace engineers have found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways ...

When their orbits degrade and they fall toward the surface, they are burned up by the atmosphere’s friction; due to climate ...

Useable data is one of the most valuable tools scientists can have. The more data sources they have, the better they can make ...

Many space people are worried about a space junk catastrophe called the Kessler Syndrome. Lower orbits reduce the risk of the ...

China launched a Long March 8 carrier rocket early Wednesday morning at the Hainan International Commercial Aerospace Launch ...

The Wenchang Space Launch Center, the other spaceport in Hainan, is, like the three other such centers in China — Jiuquan, ...

Cavcic cited the higher orbit of Globalstar’s satellites, at an altitude of 879 miles, as a further advantage over ...

The re-entry of SpaceX's Starlink satellites is raising environmental concerns, as scientists warn that the release of ...

The ongoing surge of greenhouse gas emissions in the near-Earth environment could cause dramatic declines in the number of ...