When astronomer Samantha Lawler got an email from a journalist in May 2024 saying that space junk may have landed in a farmer ...

The debris arrives in the rockets’ wake: melted plastics, aluminum and pieces of blue adhesive. It all ends up stranded on ...

Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth could pose an ... Seattle and the Eastern seaboard had about a 25% chance each year of being disrupted by re-entry of space debris, the paper found.

It was the first known in-orbit collision to occur between two human-made spacecraft, but certainly not the last: In 2023, the ESA found that space debris tends to smash into other debris ...

It has been advised that the debris may be either a fragment of a meteor or potentially space debris, commonly referred to as ...

Debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off in the United States on February 1 entered the Earth's atmosphere over Poland on Wednesday, the Polish space agency said. A 1.5 meter by one ...

The space junk pieces (by this time they had found two) were housed in his clean and organized equipment shed. Although I already knew their size and weight, I wasn’t prepared for how large they ...

Space junk crashing back back to Earth could be a growing problem ... The study found that high-density regions close to major airports have an 0.8% chance per year of being affected by an ...

THE James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first-ever exoplanet – a distant world hidden by the glare of its nearest star. The landmark discovery marks a new era for alien-hunters, ...

People from North Florida to North Carolina reported a bright streak and fireball across the sky Thursday. Here's what to ...