NASA investigates whether debris that struck Florida home fell from space

Alejandro Otero was traveling overseas when he received a panicked call from his son back home. It didn’t look like a normal piece of debris to Otero. He insisted: “I knew it was from outer space.” Otero’s theory might not be far off. He learned after searching online that a pallet of old batteries jettisoned from the International Space Station in 2021 had been expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere on March 8, the day his house was struck. He connected …