If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Three tons of space junk slammed into the Moon last year, leaving many bewildered and ...

Junk on crash course with Moon 'not from Elon Musk's SpaceX' Quest to retreive 50-year-old UK space debris 'We must clean up junk or risk satellites' Six weeks after the booster was first seen ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--The moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater that could fit several semitractor-trailers. The leftover rocket will smash ...

Some past mini-moons, such as this one from 2020, have been discovered to be random pieces of space junk. The 2020 mini-moon was eventually identified as a rocket booster from the 1966 Surveyor 2 ...

Space junk map tracks 200 'ticking time bombs' Russian ... Prof McDowell said he is 80% certain that the object on course to hit the Moon is from the 2014 Chinese rocket launch.