Flaming chunks of metal crash into homes, farms and parking lots. Who’s to blame? And who pays for the damage?

The stray upper stage (section) of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is about the size of a five-storey building, with a mass of at ...

The unintended event also creates an opportunity for scientists and skywatchers to witness lunar impact dynamics in real time, although the debris will hit a sunlit portion of the moon from the ...

Space junk weighing up to 2,000 kg reenters Earth uncontrolled roughly every week, with no binding safety rules and ...

For now, people are more likely to be struck by lightning than by falling space junk. The only documented case is of an ...

Every year, we shoot several thousand satellites and other objects out into space. When satellites die, they become space trash that threatens aerospace safety. Outer space has a trash problem. "And ...

Every year, thousands of satellites are launched into orbit around our planet. The result is an increasingly congested "space ...

Metal spheres recently found on a beach in northern Queensland, Australia, draw attention to the worsening issue of space ...

Half a century of space exploration has created a shroud of junk around Earth. As part of its Clean Space initiative, ESA plans to tackle the problem directly: by designing dedicated removal missions.

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Humans will soon be heading out into the solar system in much greater numbers than ever before, and plans are for some of them to settle on other worlds in our vicinity on a semi-permanent basis. The ...

Clean up on spacelane five.