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 ...

For the first time ever, scientists have observed in near real time a cloud of air pollution created as a SpaceX rocket burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

The recent study focuses on the amount of lithium left behind from a single rocket reentry. Previous studies have already ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket burned up during an uncontrolled re-entry and left behind a detectable plume of chemical pollution ...

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 ...

Scientists detected a lithium spike nearly 60 miles above Earth and traced it to a Falcon 9 rocket re-entry, raising concerns.

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