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

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

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...