A man from Florida may have to sue Japan after rubbish from the International Space Station (ISS ... damage from falling space debris is very rare. Most things that crash into Earth do not ...

From astronauts getting stranded on a leaking ISS and faceplanting moon landers to injured Mars robots and a tumbling solar ...

One Alabama woman was rudely awoken from a nap in 1954 when a meteorite came through her roof and hit her, leaving a big ...

Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong, part of China's three-person Shenzhou 19 mission, completed an 8.5-hour extravehicular activity ...

Space exploration is difficult ... Credit: NASA There’s a whole lot of junk orbiting Earth—and some of that junk is jettisoned deliberately from the ISS, on the expectation that it will ...

Two years prior, a similar incident occurred when the ISS had to maneuver to avoid ... who noted that once space debris hits a critical mass, the total amount of space debris will just keep ...

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

The amount of debris in low-Earth orbit has increased tremendously, putting satellites and the International Space Station in danger ... whose Florida home was hit by a piece of falling metal.

Last March, a 1.6-pound chunk of debris from the International Space Station tore a hole through ... which in turn creates more debris that could hit even more objects creating a cascading event ...

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The space-tug's job, therefore, will be to push the ISS to enter the atmosphere over the Spacecraft Cemetery, in the remotest stretch of the Pacific Ocean, where any debris will splash down into ...

As a piece of spaceborne garbage veered toward the International Space Station in November ... of harm’s way. If the space station had not changed course, the debris could have passed within ...