Earlier this year, the peace of a Florida neighborhood was shattered when a chunk of junk from the International Space ...
A Saskatchewan farmer’s near miss with potentially lethal debris falling from orbit highlights the skyrocketing risks and ...
One of the latest finds is a 100-pound piece of SpaceX trunk. Engineers are becoming more concerned about how debris keeps ...
but removing tiny bits zipping around the Earth is an extremely tricky problem. What are the odds on being hit by space ...
According to Ars Technica, experts have warned that there are now too many variables at play when it comes too predicting how space junk will now fall back to Earth. As a result, the risks of ...
Regulating agencies need to stop ignoring close calls — like the SpaceX debris that fell on Saskatchewan — and take action, ...
A Florida family filed a claim with NASA last week after some space junk slammed into their home earlier this year. The ...
This, and other accidents, highlight how difficult it will be to reduce the risk of falling debris reaching Earth. NASA has confirmed that a hunk of space junk as big as a car hood found in North ...
A rendering of space junk created in 2014 ... A piece on the cutting room floor: the risk that you’ll get hit by satellite ...
Your risk of being injured by falling space debris is less than 1 in 100 billion, according to the European Space Agency. But the chances are (slightly) increasing. "During the past 50 years an ...