Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth could pose an increased threat of striking aircraft as it falls from space, ...

Year after year, humanity is setting new records for the amount of stuff we're sending into the Earth's orbit, spurred mostly ...

The new study found there's a 26% chance the threat of space junk could shut down a crowded airspace in Europe, Asia or North ...

Large, uncontrolled space junk reentering Earth's atmosphere has the increasing potential to disrupt air travel, if affected ...

And the rocket fell. It was “one of the largest pieces of debris re-entering in the near past,” EU Space Surveillance and Tracking said at the time. Spain closed part of its airspace along the ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia analyzed global air traffic patterns against the projected re-entry paths of uncontrolled space debris.

“What we're kind of heading towards, I think, is potentially having more and more disruption, or maybe someone on the ground gets hit by space debris, and then we'll see some action on the issue ...

You might think the odds of a piece of space junk crashing down to Planet Earth and hitting you ... very important message ...

The experimental grippers demonstrated autonomous detection and capture techniques that may be used to remove space debris and ... for use inside the International Space Station.