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A red-hot piece of space debris that weighs half a tonne plummeted to Earth this week, landing in a remote Kenyan village.

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As competition in the new space race ramps up with China, the United States is preparing to deorbit the International Space ...

Officials said they were investigating fragments of metal, believed to be from a rocket, that crashed into a village in the ...

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