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Johannesburg residents witnessed debris believed to be from a Russian space rocket falling to earth on Sunday night.

Europe is working with Britain to manufacture the first spacecraft that will capture defunct satellites from orbit around Earth.

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

The asteroid, named 7335 (1989 JA), will soundly miss our planet by about 4 million kilometres, it is set to pass tomorrow (Friday, 27 May).

More than 27,000 pieces of space junk are being tracked by the Department of Defense. While they're very small, it could get in the way of missions.

More than 27,000 pieces of space junk are being tracked by the Department of Defense. While they're very small, it could get in the way of missions.

Tame the heavens? There’s an institute for that, co-founded by global law professor Michael Byers. A Tyee interview.

China has a good space program. only the second nation to land successfully a rover on mars. we did that 40 years ago and still are. however, i think its going to be a race as to who gets to the moon and who does what on the moon. and thats occurring with china >> one other concern is of course a space arms race in both china and russia have tested and deployed space weapons. what needs to be done to prevent that from happening? >> well, first of all, they need to be shamed that they would go up...

The European Space Agency said it had to quickly conduct a difficult maneuver to avoid a "high-risk collision" with debris from an exploded Soviet satellite.

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