Some high-density airspace regions could have as high as a 26% of being affected by an uncontrolled rocket body reentry.

Uncontrolled space debris reentries are of growing concern. The prospect of leftovers from space hotfooting into the Earth's ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

When you look up at the night sky, you might not notice the ever-growing field of debris surrounding Earth. However, over ...

The risk of rogue rocket debris and other man-made space junk colliding with planes is a growing challenge that’s only going ...

Mining ocean resources needed for electric cars and other devices is currently a hot issue of dispute. Final resolution of ...

It turns out the object was a piece of space debris that had re-entered the atmosphere, according to Facebook post by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic ...

Christophe Bonnal, a French specialist in space debris, said the debris might have come from a military launcher. "They are armored, which fits with the fact that it is very big and heavy," he said.

As the data came in, a bright fireball flying overhead revealed the source: A large piece of space junk burning up as it fell to Earth. That junk was a 3,300-pound module that detached from China ...

“Space debris and space rocks move slightly differently ... suggested that the object is part of the Arjuna asteroid belt, which is made of small asteroids that have orbits around the sun ...