People from North Florida to North Carolina reported a bright streak and fireball across the sky Thursday. Here's what to know.

The ISS performed its 39th ever space junk collision avoidance maneuver on Nov. 19. Although it was the first such maneuver in 2024, it may not be the last, experts say.

An incoming piece of space junk recently prompted the International Space Station to take action to maneuver itself out of harm's way. A Russian cargo ship docked at the space station fired its ...

NASA says that the International Space Station (ISS) shifted its orbit on Tuesday to avoid a piece of debris. The debris avoidance maneuver involved firing thrusters on the ISS at 2:09 p.m. CT for ...

Had the maneuver had not been conducted, the debris would have come within nearly 2.5 miles of the station, NASA also says. The debris was "small," U.S. Space Forces-Space tells NPR.

NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office the International Space Station would produce more than 220 million debris fragments if it broke up in orbit, for example.

Space junk is a huge concern for those who want to put anything into orbit or keep it there. Here are a few times that space junk narrowly averted disaster.

NASA confirmed to the Times that the junk found in North Carolina came from SpaceX Dragon and was "predicted to burn up fully." This is also what NASA said about the ISS stanchion that struck the ...

The debris came from the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that had reentered Earth’s atmosphere after traveling to the International Space Station, NASA said in an emailed statement.

NASA and SpaceX later determined the debris fell from orbit in February, and earlier this month, SpaceX employees came to the farm to retrieve the wreckage, according to CBC.

When a Florida family filed a claim against NASA over "space junk" that fell through their roof earlier this year, they launched a potentially precedent setting question: Who is liable when debris ...