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A Chinese rocket booster weighing approximately four tons reentered the Earth's atmosphere on March 8 over Texas at 17,000 mph and ultimately disintegrated.

A bright and mysterious fireball flying through the sky across scotland and parts of ireland and the uk wednesday night. >> hundreds of people saw this thing. it was in the sky, look. there you go. for about 10 to 20 seconds. cnns space and defense correspondent kristen fisher is with us now. what was it? >> well, we dont know yet with 100% certainty, but a group called the uk meteor network is convinced it was a meteor, which is a small piece of an asteroid which was breaking up as it entered t...

NASA says a new crater on the moon was caused by a "mystery rocket."

The painstaking job of monitoring space junk is getting harder, making it more difficult to predict the impact on services and future space flight.

Right now remains from all evidence we have, a very big ask for the north koreans. >> tom, all of that considered, can the north koreans fast track all their research and all the research they would need for such a missile? >> i think a lot of rocket scientists will tell you no. they speed it up as much as they want. lets say they have range, accuracy and a warhead for a short or intermediate range missiles because of all the things i just mentioned this goes red again if you start talking about...

Hey, good morning, charlie crew. lets get started with changeover. >> one of the first warning shots in space was spotted here at the joint space operations center at vandenberg air force base in california. >> all assets are currently tasked and ready to support. any questions, maam, thats all ive got. >> it was may 2014 when a small team of airmen monitoring a russian space launch saw something theyd never seen before. >> as part of the russian space launch, we were tracking three objects on o...

Base in california. >> all assets are currently tasked and ready to support. any questions, maam, thats all ive got. >> it was may 2014 when a small team of airmen monitoring a russian space launch saw something theyd never seen before. >> as part of the russian space launch, we were tracking three objects on orbit. one was the actual satellite they were launching in orbit, one was the rocket body, and another was what we assumed to be a piece of debris. >> but soon after, that debris came to li...

>> good morning, charlie crew, lets get started with the changeover. >> one of the first warning shots in space was spotted here. at the joint space operations center at vannenberg air force base in california. >> all assets are currently tasked. if you have any questions, maam, thats all ive got. >> in may 2014 when a small team of airmen monitoring a russian space launch saw something theyd never seen before. >> its part of the russian space launch we were tracking three rockets. one was the a...

Team of airmen monitoring a russian space launch saw something they had never seen before. >> it is part of the russian space launch. we were tracking three objects on or bichbit. one was the rocket body and another was what we asosumed to be a piece of debris. >> soon after the debris came to life. lieutenant general, commander of u.s. space forces. >> the one object we assumed was a piece of debris started to maneuver close to the booster. >> it has continued to make maneuvers? >> we are watch...