Ann Hodges was the only confirmed person in the U.S. to be hit by a meteorite, which struck her after crashing through her roof in 1954. The vast majority of meteorites and space debris are small ...

“The annual risk of an individual human being injured by space debris is under 1 in 100 billion. In comparison, a person is about 65,000 times more likely to be struck by lightning.” ...

Remarkably, this action did not violate any existing laws, yet it left a treacherous cloud of debris swirling in the vastness of space—an ongoing ... 5,000 pieces of man-made equipment orbiting ...

And the rocket fell. It was “one of the largest pieces of debris re-entering in the near past,” EU Space Surveillance and Tracking said at the time. Spain closed part of its airspace along the ...