A space physics expert has warned that debris falling from the sky could cause major damage and even kill people.

An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to include the protection of Earth's orbit in the U.N.

If the space station had not changed course, the debris could have passed within 2 ½ miles (4 kilometers) of its orbital path, according to NASA. Debris striking the space station could have ...

While Elon Musk’s spaceflight company repeated a spectacular catch of its powerful booster stage, the upper stage experienced ...

In fact, though, human space exploration and industrialization has polluted the area around our planet, with the resulting debris known as space junk. The problem is expected to only grow as the ...

As the New York Times reported at the time, the Kenya Space Agency identified the "red-hot" object as a piece of space junk that survived reentry, indicating that it was still trying to identify the ...