Metal spheres recently found on a beach in northern Queensland, Australia, draw attention to the worsening issue of space ...

According to Mariusz Slonina, who heads space situational awareness operations for the Polish Space Agency, around one metric ton of space debris re-enters Earth's atmosphere every week.

More than a metric tonne of space debris is falling back to Earth roughly every week as the rapid growth in rocket launches and satellite deployments increases the amount of junk orbiting the planet, ...

For now, people are more likely to be struck by lightning than by falling space junk. The only documented case is of an ...

As Earth’s orbit gets more crowded, companies are betting that cleaning up space junk could become a lucrative new business.

(The Conversation) – When it comes to space debris, what goes up is coming down more often – and not safely. When spacecraft launch, some components, including nonreusable rocket boosters, are ...

Six mysterious metal spheres that washed ashore last weekend at Forrest Beach in northern Queensland, Australia, are “suspected space debris,” the Australian Space Agency announced Monday on social ...