The growing release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere could pose a serious threat to the future of space operations, ...

The current state of Earth's climate has no recorded precedent. The consequences of the sheer volume of anthropogenic ...

Climate change, often associated with its effects on Earth, could well impact the space near our planet. A recent study ...

The thermosphere extends from about 90 km to 500 km above Earth's surface. While conditions in the thermosphere are hellish, ...

The emphasis was on low-Earth orbit (LEO; an altitude of ≤1,200 miles or 2,000 kilometers), where most satellites reside. With the United States increasingly dependent on satellites for communications ...

Chinese commercial launch company Galactic Energy successfully sent eight satellites into orbit early Monday with its light-lift Ceres-1 rocket. The Ceres-1 solid rocket lifted off at ...

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

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

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

Monday's launch was the 18th flight of the Ceres 1, which has placed 71 commercial satellites into orbit. The model now has ...

The study, published in Nature Sustainability, focuses on the thermosphere, a high-altitude atmospheric ... “satellite carrying capacity” of low Earth orbit. Their models predict that by ...