Suspected space junk which crashed near an iron ore mine in remote WA has been linked to a Chinese rocket launch.

Thousands of dead satellites and rocket fragments now orbit Earth at high speeds threatening the very technology we rely on every day.

According to a leading space archaeologist, Alice Gorman, the debris is probably from a Chinese rocket, given the timing and location. "It seems to be the fourth stage of a Jielong rocket," Gorman, a Flinders University associate professor, said as quoted by The Guardian.

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Video from Saturday, Oct. 18, shows a hunk of melted, steaming debris in the middle of a dirt area in the Pilbara District of Western Australia. Officials suspect it to be a piece of space junk.

A new paper has listed the top 50 most problematic pieces of space debris currently in low Earth orbit (LEO). Most of them are from the last century and pose a serious risk of breaking into finer, more multitudinous, and harder-to-track pieces of debris in ...