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NASA is investigating an object from space that crashed through the roof of Alejandro Otero's home in Naples, Florida, a few weeks ago.

Skywatchers in Northern California were in awe of the unidentified fiery objects entering Earth's atmosphere and streaking across the night sky.

Russia's federal space agency confirmed that the International Space Station was required to pull off a maneuver to dodge an object in its path.

NASA has published a collection of photographs and details of all of the human-made debris it's Mars rovers have found on the Red Planet from EDL hardware.

More debris from a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft that crashed back to Earth over New South Wales, Australia, has been found on farming land in the region.

The uncontrolled descent of a recently launched Long March 5B rocket has strewn debris in Indonesia, Malaysia, & the Philippines.

Multiple large pieces of space debris have crash landed on farmland in Australia, likely originating from a SpaceX Dragon craft.

The chances of space junk falling and killing someone within the next decade are much higher than one would initially expect.

Canadian researchers have developed the Implosion-Driven Launcher (IDL), which can accelerate magnesium projectiles up to 10 km/s.

The first-ever rocket equipped with a drag sail has successfully deployed its sail, and it will fall to Earth within two years.

Onlookers believed the streaks high in the night sky was a meteor shower, but it was later confirmed to be a falling dead rocket.

An object from Russia's space agency has recently contributed to the growing problem of space debris in low-Earth orbit.

Over the weekend, residents in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, were able to see a SpaceX rocket re-enter Earth and turn into a fireball.

Astroscale's ELSA-d mission has had its latest space debris cleanup demonstration disrupted by 'anomalous spacecraft conditions.'

The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that launched in 2015 will crash into the far side of the moon on March 4th.

The US Pentagon has responded to Russia's recent anti-satellite weapon test that put astronauts aboard the ISS in danger.

The International Space Station forced into dodging space debris that has come from a Chinese anti-satellite weapon test.

Space junk circling Earth is exponentially growing, and if the problem isn't solved, it will threaten future space exploration.

A co-founder of Apple has announced that his new company is moving towards the goal of building the 'Google maps of space'.

International Space Station robotic operations noticed a hole in one of the robotic arms aboard the floating space laboratory.

A former NASA senior scientist for orbital debris research has said that space junk has reached a critical 'tipping point'.

Scientists and researchers have created an almost real-time map that is tracking 200 'ticking time bombs' out in near-Earth space.

DirecTV has asked the FCC if they can do an 'emergency' de-orbit of a satellite before it explodes.

Europe is planning on launching space robots into low-Earth orbit that will clean-up our mess.