A large metallic ring that fell from the skies and crashed into a village in southern Kenya this week is space debris from a launch rocket, according to the country's space agency. The object — ...

The object turned out to be space debris — junk left over from six decades of space exploration and a growing number of commercial launches, the Kenya Space Agency said Wednesday.

The issue of space trash has risen in tandem with increased spatial traffic, the Kenya Space Agency (KSA) warns. The agency on Wednesday said the object, a metallic ring roughly 2.5 meters in ...

On Wednesday, Mukuku Village in Kenya got an unexpected visitor from space. At about 3 p.m. local time, a large metallic ring weighing about 1,100 pounds and measuring 8 feet in diameter crash ...

The Kenya Space Agency identified a "red-hot" eight-foot metal ring as a piece of space junk. Experts are still torn about ...

The KSA director general said it was lucky that no significant damage was done when the object hurtled to Earth. "The ...

MAKUENI COUNTY, Kenya – Investigations are ongoing as southern Kenya experienced falling debris from the sky around 3 p.m. on Monday. Fragments of space debris fell within a village in Makueni ...

It’s been two weeks since a chunky metal ring crashed onto a village in Kenya, but authorities are still unable to pinpoint where it came from. The fallen object raises concern over how hard it is to ...

With images and documentation, it seems clear that neither the diameter nor mass of the SYLDA component matches the ring ...

Shortly before the turn of the year, a 500-kilogram metal ring crashed in Kenya, apparently from outer space. It is still ...

A giant metal ring crashed in Kenya, revealing dangers of space debris and the looming Kessler Syndrome threat. Who's ...

Kenyan officials said Wednesday they were investigating fragments of metal, believed to be from a rocket, that crashed into a village in the country's south. The issue of space trash has risen in ...