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 ...

Who is liable when debris from space causes damage or injury? Nobody was hurt when a cylindrical object that was part of a pallet of used batteries from the International Space Station came sailing ...

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 ...

Space debris is no exception ... small to be detected by current tracking systems — can cause huge amounts of damage owing to the sheer velocity at which they travel. The ISS relies on ballistic ...

When they do succumb to gravity, the results can be unpredictable, and space debris damage can literally occur anywhere. If that gives you chills, take comfort in the fact that the sheer amount of ...

there is no mechanism for a US citizen to seek claims from the US government for damage from space debris. So the Otero family is making a first-ever claim under the Federal Torts Claim Act for ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, though not an Earth threat, now poses a collision risk to the Moon. Scientists estimate a 4.3% chance of ...

The dreadful asteroid 2024 YR4 is projected to collide with the Moon in 2032 and it could have far-reaching consequences for ...

Given the lack of definition, legal disputes often hinge on whether a piece of debris qualifies as a “space object” under the Convention for International Liability for Damage Caused by Space ...

but a chip that flies into a spacecraft at 17,500 mph can severely damage or even destroy the vessel. It's happened to satellites, and many objects have run afoul of an errant piece of space junk.