Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell If you had to guess how many Starlink satellites burn up in Earth's atmosphere on an average day, ...

The concept of the Kessler syndrome is that the area around Earth gets too crowded to a point where we reach a saturation point where collisions begin and cannot be stopped. "Spent rockets, satellites ...

An astrophysicist interview underlines the growing risk of satellites, from the increasingly crowded skies, falling to Earth.

Thousands of satellites now orbit Earth, and collisions are piling up. Scientists warn we may already be too late to avoid Kessler Syndrome — a chain reaction of space debris destruction. Trump Makes ...