New Scientist on MSN
Atmospheric pollution caused by space junk could be a huge problem
After a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up in the atmosphere, vaporised lithium and other metals drifted over Europe. This ...
This is the first observational evidence that re-entering space debris leaves a detectable, human-caused chemical fingerprint ...
A plume of upper-atmospheric lithium pollution observed in February 2025 has been attributed to the reentry of a specific ...
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Is the ozone hole really gone or are we still in danger?
NASA and NOAA scientists ranked the 2025 Antarctic ozone hole as the fifth smallest since 1992, a finding that reflects ...
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Scientists measure air pollution from reentering SpaceX rocket in real-time: 'It's never been done before'
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 study found that those aerosols could warm parts of the upper atmosphere by about 1.5 degrees Celsius within one or two ...
Researchers have found measurable traces of lithium pollution left in the upper atmosphere when a rocket burned out in space, ...
According to Alex Turner, assistant professor in atmospheric and climate science at UW, the specific gases researchers focus on depends on the timescale they care about. Methane has a larger effect on ...
Efforts to replace ozone-depleting CFCs have led to successive generations of refrigerants that may be contributing to the ...
Scientists tracked lithium pollution from a SpaceX Falcon 9 reentry in real time, linking rocket debris to atmospheric changes using LIDAR measurements over Europe.
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