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

No one was hurt by the object, believed to be part of a launch rocket. Experts say the frequency of such incidents is ...

A 1,100-pound metal ring from a rocket smashed in to a Kenyan village, where it startled residents and flattened trees ...

A red-hot piece of space debris that weighs half a tonne plummeted to Earth this week, landing in a remote Kenyan village.

All of this adds up to the likelihood, the ESA warns, that a theoretical scenario known as the Kessler Syndrome could become ...

The amount of space junk has magnified over the years, leading to more collisions and threats to future space missions.

A half-ton piece of space junk crashed into a Kenyan village this week. Initial reports from the Kenya Space Agency were ...

Talk about a close call: a large metal ring suspected to be space debris, measuring around 8 feet wide and weighing 1,100 lbs ...

A LARGE glowing ring of metal plummeted on a village in Kenya on Monday, in a shocking reminder of Earth’s looming space ...

A surveillance camera shakes as a magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocks the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet's holiest cities. Can we pretend that derelict satellites in the night sky ...

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 ...

ESA warns that unchecked debris accumulation could lead to Kessler Syndrome, rendering space travel impossible in future.