A 1,100-pound metal ring from a rocket smashed in to a Kenyan village, where it startled residents and flattened trees ...

No one was hurt by the object, believed to be part of a launch rocket. Experts say the frequency of such incidents is ...

Space debris threatens satellites and astronauts, highlighting the urgency to prevent cascading collisions in orbit.

All of this adds up to the likelihood, the ESA warns, that a theoretical scenario known as the Kessler Syndrome could become ...

This is how debris finds itself languishing in space—and what some organizations are doing to mitigate the problem.

Scientists have called for the designation of a new United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) with the aim to ...

A half-ton piece of space junk crashed into a Kenyan village this week. Initial reports from the Kenya Space Agency were ...

The amount of space junk has magnified over the years, leading to more collisions and threats to future space missions.

A huge, red-hot object fell from the sky into a Kenyan village on Monday afternoon according to local residents cited by the ...

A red-hot piece of space debris that weighs half a tonne plummeted to Earth this week, landing in a remote Kenyan village.

What to know about the growing threat of space debris as satellites multiply and experts warn of potential orbital disaster.

NASA According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently orbiting Earth. But what is that debris exactly, and how did it get there? Is the ...