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 ...

In this Aug. 1, 2022, file photo, debris from a Space X craft was found on the land of two Australian farmers. Officials at the Australian Space Agency confirmed the debris found in the Snowy ...

and other unpopulated places on land. Very rarely, they have caused damage or minor injury, but experts say a growing amount of junk in space means those occurrences may happen more frequently in ...

That doesn't always go to plan, however. In fact, this year has seen a bizarre spike in the number of chunks of space junk landing on American soil. The spike comes as an influx of new satellites ...

The giant ring fell from space, crash-landing into Mukuku Village in Kenya on Wednesday. No one was hurt, but space debris poses a serious threat to life on Earth and in space. On Wednesday ...

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 ...

"Space debris is a real and serious issue because ... in April that the law is less clear when material belonging to NASA lands on U.S. soil, making it a domestic legal issue.

Harvard University astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell in his online Space Report identified the debris found on Burucki ... manner and making a routine landing in the Pacific Ocean.

Kenya Space Agency (KSA) officials in Nairobia, Kenya, East Africa, are reporting that on Dec. 30 a large metallic ring roughly 8 feet (2.5 meters) in diameter and weighing some 1,100 pounds (500 ...

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 ...