Just as we are reckoning with how to conserve ecosystems on Earth for future living creatures, we must think of space as an ...

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 ...

Here’s how it works. A massive piece of space junk recently smashed into a village in Kenya. The 1,100-pound (500 kilograms) ring of metal likely came from a rocket, though its exact origins are ...

"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to ...

“We didn’t know if it was a bomb or whatever it was and it fell here.” 2:10 Deadly risks of falling space junk on the rise according to Canadian study Deadly risks of falling space junk on ...

The object turned out to be space debris — junk left over from six decades of space exploration and a growing number of commercial launches, the Kenya Space Agency said Wednesday. It identified ...

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

The number of space junk, including loose debris from spacecraft and decommissioned equipment, is growing at an alarming rate annually. Some of these space pieces are the size of large SUVs or ...

Kenya Space Agency officials rushed to the scene and retrieved the debris, which is now under the agency's custody. There have been no reports of injuries. Major Aloyce Were of the Kenya ...