Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long exposure photographs showed the Falcon 9 rocket debris over Berlin in 2025 [Gerd Baumgarten] When a SpaceX rocket failure set ...

The world at large is working to stop the fast-progressing degradation of Earth's environment. In the space sector, however, one-use-only products still reign supreme. The advent of megaconstellations ...

Ten years ago, there were about 1,200 satellites in orbit around the earth. Now there are about 12,000 and the numbers are growing rapidly. Starlink alone has 9,000 satellites in its communications ...

Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a new study has found. Published today in the journal Communications Earth ...

Look up on a clear night and you'll see the streaks of our new space age. What you don't see is the growing fallout for the atmosphere that keeps us alive.

China is cleaning up its sulfur pollution, but the drop in airborne particles is revealing additional warming that concerns scientists.

Air pollution has a "dramatic" impact on the amount of sunlight reaching Earth’s surface, reveals new research. Solar radiative energy declined in large parts of the world from the 1950s to the 1980s ...

Long exposure photographs showed the Falcon 9 rocket debris over Berlin in 2025 When a SpaceX rocket failure set the skies aflame over western Europe last February, no-one was sure if the debris was ...