Very rarely, they have caused damage or minor injury, but experts say a growing amount of junk in space means those occurrences may happen more frequently in the future. So who should pay in a ...

The battery pallet as it was released from the ISS in 2021. Photo: NASA On March 8, a small, cylinder-shaped object fell from the skies and crashed through the roof of a family home in Naples ...

Although tiny, such objects can cause serious damage to operational satellites. In 2016, for example, a bullet-sized piece of space junk punched a 16-inch (40 cm) hole into the solar panel of the ...

Even tiny pieces of space junk can cause incredible damage. That's because objects in orbit move incredibly quickly, typically reaching speeds of greater than 15,600 mph (25,200 km/h), or 10 times ...

And since no damage was done, the U.S. — the country ... There have also been incidents involving space junk from China. In 2007, a plane narrowly avoided being hit by Russian space debris.

Space junk should be dealt with as quickly as possible ... burn up in the atmosphere are leaving behind chemicals that could damage the Earth's ozone layer, researchers say.

How is that possible? Who is liable for damage from space debris? This was worked out by the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs back in 1972. The Liability Convention, elaborating on ...

While some of this debris gets dragged down into ... if a SpaceX Starlink satellite hits China's Tiangong Space Station and causes serious damage? Jah: Basically, the United States is liable ...

"The actual number of space debris objects larger than 1 cm in size – large enough to be capable of causing catastrophic damage – is estimated to be over 1.2 million, with over 50,000 objects ...

Three big hunks of space junk have been found in rural Australia ... Treaty and the Convention on International Liability for Damage Caused by Space Objects, the country from which a rocket ...

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