There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states that debris can reach speeds of 18,000 ...

Falling space junk is starting to become a ... rush to put internet satellite “megaconstellations” in place. Want more health and science stories in your inbox? Subscribe to Salon's weekly ...

(CNN) --Most of a falling satellite likely burned up in the atmosphere over Egypt but surviving chunks could have crashed or splashed into the planet, U.S. space officials said Thursday.

Two Maui Waena Intermediate students helped identify and track the falling satellite with the use of the Las Cumbres Observatory Faulkes Telescope North on Haleakala. NASA photo Armstrong ...

Nagpur: The mysterious piece of metal that fell on the terrace of a house in Umred is suspected to be satellite debris, say ...

And by the fall of 2000—when Colussy was shuttling ... to paste his deal together—Motorola was threatening daily to let the whole satellite network crash back to Earth.

It is more than twice the size of Greater London. But the world's largest iceberg, known as A23a, is starting to crumble. Satellite images reveal that an enormous chunk has broken off the megaberg ...