NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Marlon Sorge of The Aerospace Corporation, which researches space debris issues including who is responsible when man-made objects ... space fell out of the sky, just ...

Things have been falling out of the sky of late. Fortunately, no one has been hurt, but two recent space ... make it to the surface of the Earth. This time, it looks like much of the debris ...

The space around our planet is getting cluttered. Thousands of satellites and millions of out ... twice made headlines and prompted experts to call for action. On Jan. 27, space debris researchers ...

So when we're talking about space debris, we're talking about mostly anthropogenic or human made pieces of debris ... So for example, the FCC has recently put out guidance to have spacecraft ...

An incoming piece of space junk recently prompted the International Space Station to take action to maneuver itself out of harm's way ... and other human-made objects, like used rocket boosters ...

Read on to get the answers to these questions (and others) in ExtremeTech's scoop on space junk. When experts use the term "space debris," they're referring to pieces of human-made material that ...

The closest you can get to is United Nations put a document out in 2010, and they're just guidelines. Guideline four, don't make more space junk if you can avoid it. And we're not even following that.

The biggest danger it poses is to other satellites in orbit. These satellites have to move out of the way of all this incoming space junk to make sure they don't get hit and potentially damaged or ...

FADEL: So this was wild to me, that debris from space fell out of the sky ... where there are no people, to make sure that there isn't a risk. FADEL: Marlon Sorge is executive director of the ...