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

Watch how the atmospheric re-entry of one of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy's fairings, reported to be traveling at more than 15 times ...

When a SpaceX rocket failure set the skies aflame over western Europe last February, no-one was sure if the debris was also ...

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

Scientists tracked lithium pollution from a SpaceX Falcon 9 reentry in real time, linking rocket debris to atmospheric changes using LIDAR measurements over Europe.

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

SpaceX launched another 29 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit on Thursday evening.

SpaceX flew a Falcon 9 first-stage booster for a record-setting number of missions, breaking the company’s own reuse ...

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