Space debris is a real hazard to life on Earth, a physics expert has warned, highlighting the dangers of falling space junk ...

Our exploitation and exploration of space has left 13,000 tonnes of junk orbiting Earth. Defunct craft and larger pieces of debris are also colliding, adding to the millions of smaller fragments which ...

As more spacecraft are launched, the risk increases that uncontrolled space debris - those without active guidance - will ...

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is already scheduled to return the astronauts under a plan announced by NASA in August.

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 ...

After a tiny fleck of debris hit Sentinel-1A, the ESA announced that it was time to get serious about removing and preventing the accumulation of space junk. Space agencies began to toy with the ...

While it is possible that someone could be hit by a bit of rock or junk falling from space, the chances are extraordinarily slim, and the vast majority are tiny pieces that wouldn't have much of ...

SpaceX said they were likely to have broken off from a Dragon spacecraft returning to Earth from the International Space Station ... s property being hit by space debris,” said Fernando.