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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Over time, the atmospheric drag slowly lowers the orbit of space debris like Kosmos 482. The Venus probe failed to escape low-Earth orbit after its launch in 1972. Instead, the spherical ...

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 ...

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 ...