Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, ...

A plume of upper-atmospheric lithium pollution observed in February 2025 has been attributed to the reentry of a specific ...

Researchers have detected measurable traces left in the upper atmosphere when a rocket stage burns up, finding about ten times more lithium atoms than normal at around 96 kilometres, roughly 20 hours ...

The recent study focuses on the amount of lithium left behind from a single rocket reentry. Previous studies have already shown that lithium, aluminum, copper, and lead left behind from the reentry of ...

The study highlights how letting rocket debris burn up in the atmosphere is not a consequence-free approach to orbital cleanup.

Frequent deployment of satellites and re-entries by the rockets that deploy them might pose a risk to the Earth's upper ...

On February 19, 2025, a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster fell back toward Earth, its fiery descent slicing across Europe's night sky.

A recent study has confirmed that SpaceX rockets reentering Earth's atmosphere are contributing to metal pollution, as ...

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GOLDEN, CO — The surge in megasatellite constellations is creating problems beyond amplifying the Earth-circling space debris, according to new research. Reentering spacecraft and rocket stages may ...

Inside NASA’s Arc Jet Complex at the Ames Research Centre in California, a heat shield design is being put to the test ...