Space debris is usually designed to either burn up in Earth's atmosphere before reaching ... a soda can fell from the International Space Station, crashing through a family's roof in Florida.

The American space agency announced in June that they had selected Musk's SpaceX to develop and build the Deorbit Vehicle that will be used to bring the space station safely down to Earth ...

Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 reentered Earth's atomosphere Saturday morning after 53 years in orbit during a failed attempt ...

Analysts had warned that the rocket stage was massive enough for fragments to have reached the earth ... the Russian space station Mir was deorbited into a controlled crash in the South Pacific ...

But other times the more close-up images are taken by people: the astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS orbits the Earth at around 250 miles above the surface ...

In 2031 the International Space Station will be shuttered, and a big, souped-up SpaceX space capsule has been chosen to rocket it to a fiery end — in a controlled, careful way. There’s a lot ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is nearing the end of its life after more than two decades in low-Earth orbit. When the time comes about six years from now, NASA and its international ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft that never made it beyond Earth’s orbit on its way to Venus, is due to come crashing down on 9 or 10 May ...

This is the fourth time in two years that a Long March 5B booster has crashed back to Earth in an uncontrolled reentry. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...