A 1,100-pound metal ring from a rocket smashed in to a Kenyan village, where it startled residents and flattened trees ...

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 ...

A massive piece of space junk crashed down into a small village in Kenya which local officials say came from a rocket ...

Kenya Space Agency (KSA) officials in Nairobia, Kenya, East Africa, are reporting that on Dec. 30 a large metallic ring roughly 8 feet (2.5 meters) in diameter and weighing some 1,100 pounds (500 ...

A red-hot piece of space debris that weighs half a tonne plummeted to Earth this week, landing in a remote Kenyan village.

Spacefaring countries have for decades been sending thousands upon thousands of satellites and other objects into orbit, where they have become an integral component of modern society. From ...