The flaming debris was part of the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that launched 22 of the company's Starlink internet satellites to orbit from California on Feb. 1, experts say. The Falcon 9 upper stage is expendable (unlike the rocket's first-stage booster) but is designed to be brought down in a controlled fashion shortly after launch.

Debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off in the United States on February 1 entered the Earth's atmosphere over Poland on Wednesday, the Polish space agency said. A 1.5 meter by one meter (five feet by three feet) chunk from an unidentified object was found near the western city of Poznan,

Perhaps the most noteworthy part of the crash was a tank that was spotted by Adam Borucki, a warehouse owner in Komorniki, Poland who saw the charred barrel sitting in his backyard. He photographed the tank,

A chunk of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket made an "uncontrolled re-entry into the atmosphere" over Poland and crash-landed into a man’s lawn, the Polish space agency said on Wednesday. The debris, about 1.5m by 1m wide,