The satellite, launched 14 years ago, will make an uncontrolled re-entry Tuesday evening. NASA puts the risk of harm to anyone on Earth at "approximately 1 in 4,200." ...

Space junk is perhaps a silly-sounding name, and while it's not new, the rise of private aerospace firms has exacerbated this very real and serious problem. Also called "space debris," human-made ...

Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...

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M odern life provides enough for us to worry about without having to add space junk to that list. Unfortunately, it is ...

No trip to space can be counted a success unless you make it safely back to Earth. That’s a lesson American astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams learned when their intended eight-day stay aboard ...

(Gray News) – The risk of space debris falling through airspace is going up in 2026, according to researchers. Experts said spacecraft, or parts of one, fall back into the Earth’s atmosphere once a ...

One person's trash is another person's treasure, unless, of course, you're talking about space debris, since it's too tough to acquire without a shuttle or a spaceship. That's a shame because space ...

Since 1971, space agencies have crashed retired spacecraft at Point Nemo, raising concerns about ocean debris and the ISS ...