A piece of outer space rock that blasted through the sky above metro Atlanta is now a part of Georgia's Tellus Science Museum ...

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

Faint booms from space help track incoming debris. But the path matters more than you think. Earth gains a little mass each year as space dust rains down from above, adding thousands of metric tons to ...

The bigger the rock, the less often they impact Earth. For example, a 140-metre asteroid impacts Earth roughly once every 1,000 years and one that is about one kilometre in size impacts Earth roughly ...

Recent examples of space debris landing on Earth have sparked safety concerns on the ground. Space industry experts explain why uncontrolled re-entries could be an accident waiting to happen.

The sky is falling: There is a lot of debris in orbit around Earth that sooner or later we will have to contrive a means to go get.

Failed Soviet Venus probe is falling back to Earth: When, where Cosmos 482 could land News of Cosmos 482's impending crash landing has been met with questions regarding just precisely when – and ...

Typically, space debris breaks apart and burns up during reentry, with only a small fraction of material reaching the Earth's surface.

Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds. Researchers are using infrasound sensors to track these objects ...

Still, previously space junk has been reported falling into a yard in Poland, hitting a house in Florida, falling into the ocean, and raining metal over Côte d’Ivoire.

It’s also possible that the Soviet space probe debris could burn up during atmospheric reentry, but that’s not entirely a given thanks to the probe’s original mission goals.

At least three old satellites or rocket bodies fall back to Earth every day, a new report reveals. And experts warn that the number of objects returning from space is set to increase, a possible ...