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 ...

A shrinking thermosphere means less drag, which could hinder the natural removal of space debris impacting satellites, as per ...

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

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

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

Climate change is altering conditions in near-Earth space, which could limit the number of satellites that can reliably ...

The idea of flying satellites in "very" low-Earth orbit is not new. Dating back to the dawn of the space age in the late 1950s, the first US spy satellites, as part of the Corona program, orbited the ...

Lockheed Martin expects its mid-size demonstration satellite will launch on Saturday on a Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket.

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

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