After a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up in the atmosphere, vaporised lithium and other metals drifted over Europe. This ...

If executed at the scale, Musk's orbital data center plan could have devastating effects on the environment and the ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 crashed to Earth last year. Now scientists have measured the pollution it caused.

Scientists directly measured the lithium left behind in the mesosphere when pieces of a SpaceX rocket fell to Earth over ...

Plextek’s SWaP technology is in use for the ClearSpace-1 mission, a project developed by the European Space Agency to remove ...

This is the first observational evidence that re-entering space debris leaves a detectable, human-caused chemical fingerprint ...

Circling the Earth are millions of pieces of debris about one-ninth of an inch and larger.

The study found that those aerosols could warm parts of the upper atmosphere by about 1.5 degrees Celsius within one or two ...

When part of a SpaceX rocket re-entered Earth's atmosphere exactly a year ago, it created a spectacuglar fireball that ...

This report was issued in February 2026 and covers the time period 1 January 2026 to 31 January 2026 inclusive. January saw sustained levels of space ...

SpaceX will resume Falcon 9 booster landings in The Bahamas after regulators completed safety and environmental reviews, clearing the way for future Starlink missions and rocket recoveries in local wa ...