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Excess carbon dioxide is cooling the Earth's upper atmosphere, making it so that close-orbit objects like satellites and space junk stay in orbit longer.

Smooth Sailing

This is ultimately bad for everyone.

Climate Change Is Apparently Doing Something Weird to Satellites

SpaceX debris keeps being found on Australian cattle farms — but at least the latest rancher to find a piece has a good sense of humor. 

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"We haven't slept for the past week, because we don't know what's going to hit the roof or fall through it."

Even More SpaceX Debris Crashes Down on Another Cattle Farm

A sheep farmer in New South Wales, Australia, made a highly unusual discovery: a massive piece of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, according to experts.

Obelisk 2.0

"If it landed on your house it would make a hell of a mess."

SpaceX Debris Allegedly Smashes Into Sheep Farm

Russia's Progress cargo spacecraft had to perform an unplanned engine burn to avoid debris left behind by one of the country's own satellites.

Duck and Roll

Well, if it isn't the consequences of my actions.

Russia Forced to Dodge Space Debris From When It Blew Up Satellite

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reveled that some of the company's internet-beaming Starlink satellites had to swerve out of the way of space debris.

Change Lanes

"Not great, but not terrible either."

Elon Musk Says Starlink Satellites Had to Swerve Out of the Way of Debris

University of Utah's Jake Abbott predicts the Earth could soon look a lot like Saturn. "Earth is on course to have its own rings" made out of space junk.

F***ing Magnets

"Earth is on course to have its own rings. They’ll just be made of junk."

Professor Says Earth Is Forming Saturn-Like Rings Made of Space Junk

Russia's Ministry of Defense is defending its reckless actions after blasting an old satellite into 1,500 trackable pieces of space debris.

Blowing Up Satellites

The "resulting fragments do not pose any threat to space activities."

Russia Says Actually It's Fine That It Blew Up a Satellite, Filled Orbit With Deadly Space Junk

For the second time in a week, the International Space Station (ISS) has gotten close enough to an interstellar "debris cloud" to cause the team of astronauts aboard to take refuge in their exit spaceships. 

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What's happening to the final frontier? 

ISS Astronauts Shelter in Escape Vehicles as Mysterious Debris Threatens Station

The International Space Station is maneuvering out of the way of space junk, which was created after China destroyed a derelict satellite in 2007.

Woosh

Thanks, China.

ISS Forced to Dodge Debris From Chinese Anti-Satellite Weapon

Steve Wozniak's new venture called Privateer may be a space junk cleanup company — something that makes a lot of sense right now.

It's Garbage Day

It makes a ton of sense.

This Clue May Show What Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Is Doing in Space

In a Saturday tweet, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested that Starship might be a potential solution to the growing space junk problem.

Chomp

"We can fly Starship around space and chomp up debris with the moving fairing door."

Elon Musk Says New Spacecraft Will "Chomp Up" Space Junk

NASA administrator Bill Nelson has some strong feelings on the topic of space junk, as evidenced in a recent interview with CNN.

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