What should you do if an errant piece of space junk lands in your yard or crushes your two-car garage? And who is legally on the hook for damages to your property or person? It's an astronomically ...

Recent examples of space debris landing on Earth have sparked safety concerns on the ground. Space industry experts explain ...

On December 30, the people of Mukuku, a village in Kenya about 90 kilometers (56 miles) from the capital Nairobi, found a massive piece of space debris. Luckily nobody was harmed when the 500 ...

The new report "underlines that space activity has now increased to ... the chances of a piece of junk landing on somebody's head are slim. Still, pieces of debris have previously been found ...

The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred at 2:24 a.m. ET (0624 GMT or 9:24 a.m. Moscow time) over the Indian Ocean ...

The Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is ... or how much of it will survive reentry, according to space debris-tracking experts. Dutch scientist Marco Langbroek ...

The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to touch down on Venus. Because of a propulsion problem, it never escaped ...

Debris from spent rockets or satellites ... While some folks may have had concerns about the great lump of metal landing on their head, the European Space Agency had tried to put things into ...

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian ...

a piece of space junk the size of Kosmos 482, with a mass of about a half-ton, falls into the atmosphere about once per week. What's different this time is that Kosmos 482 was designed to land on ...