Artist's depiction of what a concentrated cloud of space debris might look like. (Credit: NASA) According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are ...

NASA According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently orbiting Earth. But what is that debris exactly, and how did it get there? Is the ...

The space debris problem won't solve itself. We've been kicking the can down the road for years as we continue launching more rockets and payloads into space. In the last couple of years ...

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space junk. Also known as space debris, this refers to defunct satellites, spent rocket stages, fragments from collisions, and other remnants of human activity in space. As the amount of debris in ...

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The space debris is just one of several pieces that have plummeted back to the planet. However, experts are more worried about the growing number of objects circling our world. Tens of thousands ...

Past examples of man-made human space debris hitting Earth include part of a SpaceX Dragon capsule landing on an Australian sheep farm in 2022. “Space junk is a growing problem, and while this ...

As the data came in, a bright fireball flying overhead revealed the source: A large piece of space junk burning up as it fell to Earth. That junk was a 3,300-pound module that detached from China ...

It turns out the object was a piece of space debris that had re-entered the atmosphere, according to Facebook post by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic ...