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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Y6 carrier rocket carrying 18 low Earth orbit satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in ...

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