The Kenyan villagers surprised by falling satellite debris heralding a new year full of surprises.

Earth is surrounded by millions of pieces of space junk, which pose a constant threat to future space exploration ...

This is how debris finds itself languishing in space—and what some organizations are doing to mitigate the problem.

On December 30, a mysterious 1,100-pound object in the shape of a massive, 8-f00t metal ring, reportedly fell from the sky, ...

No one was hurt by the object, believed to be part of a launch rocket. Experts say the frequency of such incidents is ...

A large piece of debris suspected to have been from the reentry of the SpaceX Crew-7 mission was found along a trail in a remote section of the North Carolina mountains. Space.com's Brett Tingley ...

A 1,100-pound metal ring from a rocket smashed in to a Kenyan village, where it startled residents and flattened trees ...

Officials said they were investigating fragments of metal, believed to be from a rocket, that crashed into a village in the ...

It was an ordinary day for the residents of Mukuku village in Kenya's Makueni County – until an unexpected delivery from ...

shattering into 50 pieces and joining the estimated 130 million bits of "space junk" in the Earth's orbit. The increasing amount of debris has heightened fears about the "Kessler syndrome".