High above the earth, a cutting-edge satellite is passing around Earth 15 times per day. It is hunting for leaks of methane – ...

While pollution from burnt-up satellites high up in the atmosphere is seemingly a distant concern for humans, it might lead ...

Hundreds of defunct satellites plunge toward Earth every year. Scientists are studying how the chemical stew left in their wake impacts the atmosphere.

The air quality in the national capital has been struggling to recover from the lows to which it dropped right after ...

Ships are still emitting too much nitrogen oxide. Until now, it has been impossible to measure this at sea, but that is set ...

The team found unique plumes of ice clouds near 67 metal and cement factories, paper mills and power plants in North America, ...

The government currently uses data from NASA satellites that pass twice a day over the northern states of Punjab and Haryana ...

Scientists are sounding alarm bells about the growing number of satellites burning up in Earth's upper atmosphere ... the amount of potentially harmful satellite ash in the atmosphere.

could be part of the solution to the [satellite air pollution] problem," Andrew Bacon, Space Forge chief technology officer and co-founder said at a September 2024 workshop on Protecting Earth and ...

Related: Burned-up space junk pollutes Earth's upper atmosphere ... Research into atmospheric effects of rocket flights and ...

Within 10 years, 100,000 satellites could circle Earth, 100 times more than in 2010. Most of these satellites will belong to megaconstellations, enormous fleets of tens of thousands of satellites, ...