Photos show the 1,000 pounds of space debris that crash landed in Kenya. It's unclear who it belongs to.

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ariel shot looking down on four men standing next to a giant metal ring from space
Kenyan officials examine a metallic ring that fell from space.

Citizen TV vis Reuters

SpaceX Dragon Capsule debris as big as a car hood crash-landed in North Carolina. It's part of a major space trash problem.

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Dragon Capsule
The trunk of SpaceX's dragon capsule (left) was designed to burn up upon re-entry to Earth's atmosphere. Instead, it crash landed in North Carolina.

REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

Scientists want to use a self-consuming rocket to help control the space junk problem

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3 researchers standing next to rocket engine prototype
The researchers and their prototype.

University of Glasgow

4 times NASA astronauts lost things in space

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image of astronauts in suits in space outside space station
Jasmin Moghbeli (top) and Loral O'Hara (bottom) performing maintenance outside the international Space Station.

NASA TV

In a first-ever for space junk, Dish Network was fined $150,000 for leaving a retired satellite to orbit indefinitely in the wrong place

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space junk debris field earth orbit esa
An illustration of space junk. Satellites and debris are not to scale.

ESA

NASA awarded $850,000 to a company that wants to pick up space trash the old-fashioned way — with bags

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space junk debris field earth orbit esa
An illustration of space junk. Satellites and debris are not to scale.

ESA

Photos show European satellite tumbling to its fiery doom after a first-of-a-kind maneuver that prevented a lot of space trash and falling debris on Earth

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Illustration of the Aeolus satellite in space.
Aeolus was the first satellite to study winds on Earth at a global scale.

European Space Agency

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