"The light show was completely silent — we didn’t hear anything. But the reflection on the water from the burning debris was ...

We're getting more eyes (satellites) on the sky, but we're also creating an increasing amount of space junk that has scientists on edge. Space junk is anything that humanity has put into low Earth ...

In Gravity, the 2013 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, astronauts Matt Kowalski and Ryan Stone are on a spacewalk when they are struck by an expanding cloud of debris, tearing Stone away from the ...

But this week’s two space debris-related events in the Bahamas and Europe point to how successful rocket launches can also leave their mark on Earth. They also highlight how the rise in the ...

It turned out to be a piece of space junk. There are millions of pieces of space debris and rubbish floating around in space. And we’re sending more and more stuff up there. Now it’s not just ...

23, Ewan Wright, a doctoral student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and his colleagues calculated the likelihood of space debris from rocket launches falling into ...

Social media posts reported seeing what is believed to be space junk over southern New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Astronomer David Finlay said footage led him to believe ...

Speculation abounded online about whether the fireball was space junk or a meteor burning up as it entered the atmosphere. Facebook user Anthony Davis captured images of a fireball streaking ...