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 ...

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

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

We knew the Earth's atmosphere was shrinking due to climate change. Now, we have determined how many satellites will fit into ...

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 ...

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 ...

By utilising communication signals for positioning and calculating the earth’s gravitational field, real-time observation of ...