Space Junk

The rocket was launched in 1980, with the rocket stage orbiting the Earth as space junk for the past 42 years.

Outside of a spacesuit, the human body is exposed to extreme temperatures, zero pressure and a vacuum that sucks the air out of your lungs.

The core booster from China's Long March 5B rocket, delivering the final piece of the Tiangong space station, will crash-land in an uncontrolled reentry.

The Taurid swarm crosses Earth's orbit once every few years, causing higher numbers of meteors to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.

Debris from previous Mars landings and crashes might affect future missions to the red planet.

The Long March 7A rocket launched on September 13, sending bits of space junk into orbit.

The most recent chunk of a rocket was found by cattle farmer Jordan Hobbs on August 13.

The remaining pieces of debris of the Long March 5B rocket are due to land somewhere unknown.

Due to its large size, the first stage of China's Long March 5B rocket won't burn up in the atmosphere.

Space debris is a growing problem as humanity launches more and more satellites into Earth orbit, making space increasingly crowded.

Using a new method of garbage disposal, the ISS got rid of nearly 200 lbs of junk via a waste container at an airlock.

A Chinese drag sail launched into space has succeeded in accelerating the deorbit of a rocket, the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology announced.

The European Space Agency said it had to quickly conduct a difficult maneuver to avoid a "high-risk collision" with debris from an exploded Soviet satellite.

The head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos has responded to Vice President Kamala Harris' move to limit space junk creation that jeopardizes space missions.

The Falcon 9 rocket stage, weighing four metric tons, will very likely strike the moon's far side near its equator on March 4, 2022, at 5,700 miles per hour.

The Falcon 9 rocket stage, which has spent almost seven years in space, is expected to hit the moon at around 5,700 mph in March.

A weapons test conducted on an old satellite resulted in more than 1,500 pieces of junk entering space.

The missile target is believed to have been a Russian satellite destroyed in the explosion. It highlighted the risk of space junk to missions like the ISS.

Space debris twice flew past the football-field-sized modular space station on Monday morning, forcing American and Russian crew members to seek shelter.

The fireball seen over the Eastern U.S. and Canada was caused by the reentry of Kosmos-2551, a Russian reconnaissance satellite.

Scientists think a flash of light from a distant galaxy may have just been light reflected by rocket debris.

"It was stunning, beautiful, and scary all at the same time," one Twitter user wrote.

The object will come within around 139,500 miles of our planet.

The object, which is estimated to measure between 15-33 feet across, was discovered on September 17, 2020.

NASA says there are millions of tiny pieces of space debris in orbit above Earth.

Satellites have collided only four times in the past 30 years, making it difficult to form generalizations about cause.

"I'll be in the office [Saturday] and probably early Sunday morning," Thompson said, sounding more excited than resigned. "We'll be watching it the whole way."

Billed as the "brightest thing in the sky," the carbon fiber ball is seven months ahead of schedule.

The harpoon could tug the 9-ton Envisat towards the atmosphere.

If we keep making satellites at the current rate, nearby planets could spot us by 2200.