Space junk – any of the millions of pounds of objects left by humans in space ranging from small nuts and bolts to pieces of defunct satellites – falls into Earth's atmosphere every day.

It's still quite uncertain just where and when the craft will fall, although it is expected to reenter around 2:26 am ET on May 10 +/- 4.35 hours.

Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere, the amount of space debris increased ... make up the majority of stuff that falls back to Earth these days, and their numbers are ...

The increasing risk of space junk hitting a plane when it falls back to earth comes as private space exploration ramps up and the number of flights increases. In the past seven years, the number ...

FADEL: So this was wild to me, that debris from space fell out of the sky ... past the time that it's operating even when it falls back to Earth. We had actually a clear example of that situation ...

We’ve all heard of space debris that sometimes falls back to Earth. But the next hunk of space junk set to crash-land on our planet is a little bigger than just “debris.” A Kosmos 482 ...

Last year, the European Space Agency estimated that there were more than 14,000 tons of material in low Earth orbit. About a third of that is junk, according to Sara Webb, an astrophysicist at the ...