Tens of thousands of pieces of space debris are hurtling around Earth right now. These defunct satellites, spent rocket ...

Over 6,600 tons of space junk are floating around in Earth's orbit. Fragments can come off spacecraft like satellites and disintegrate into tiny – but dangerous – bits of debris in orbit.

One of the Hubble Space Telescope’s solar arrays, returned to Earth in March 2002 after more than 8 years in space, shows a 0.1-inch (2.5 millimeters) hole blasted into it by space debris ...

Over time, space junk degrades and can slow down enough to lower out of orbit and enter the Earth's atmosphere. An object that is large enough will not burn up in the atmosphere. Instead, it will ...

Earth may briefly capture as many as six moon fragments — called minimoons — at any given time before they move on to orbit ...

Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds. Researchers are using infrasound sensors to track these objects ...

Why is space debris a problem? There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states ...

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There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, debris from the nuclear bomb-like impact could trigger a "spectacular" meteor ...

According to NASA, the Perseids is considered the best meteor shower of the year, largely due to the long streaks of color they leave as they head through our atmosphere, as well as their sheer ...