meaning neither the US or Russia have control over where they go. If they had collided, it could have decimated both satellites, blasting 2,500 to 7,500 fragments of space junk into Earth's orbit ...

About 6,300 space junk objects were left by Russia, 4,570 were left by the US and 3,660 were left by China Russia favors settlement in Syria, to continue supporting its people — Putin The ...

The KSA director general said it was lucky that no significant damage was done when the object hurtled to Earth. "The ...

Russian Space Systems (RSS ... and RSS Research Engineer Marina Barkova told TASS on Wednesday. The space debris disposal system will be able to capture "decommissioned small satellites in ...

the Russian space agency. Based on the data, it appears that Meteor-M 2-2 was struck by a micrometeoroid – either a natural chunk of space rock or some piece of man-made debris. The SUV-sized ...

"A collision has occurred between an Iridium 33 satellite and a Russian Kosmos ... of particles of debris from the collision, and said the orbiting International Space Station faced a small ...

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik. Since then, the space above Earth has been flooded with thousands of satellites, spent rocket stages and the debris from several ...

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

Here are a few of the most common (and problematic) types of space debris. Take Vanguard-1, a shiny metal ball the US Navy launched in 1958 to respond to the Soviet Union's Sputnik and Sputnik 2.

Pieces of space junk from a Russian satellite coming out of orbit narrowly missed hitting a jetliner over the Pacific Ocean overnight. The pilot of a Lan Chile Airbus A340, which was travelling ...