Any debris created by damaged satellites measuring larger than 1 cm can pose huge threats to other active, low-orbiting ...

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

Researchers calculated both the odds of falling rocket debris disrupting air travel, but also colliding with an aircraft ...

With primary structure qualification tests complete on its pathfinder module, Vast Space has updated the timeline for the ...

operational risks" than those posed by the falling space debris. "The incident highlighted, among other things, a lack of preparation for this eventuality and a lack of harmonization of responses ...

As more space junk is falling to Earth uncontrolled, scientists are using seismometers to track the debris.

A significant exception is that large pieces of the American space station Skylab did come down ... the threat of falling debris can force the closure of airspace around a city out of an abundance ...

About 30 metres long and weighing as much as 23 tonnes, the booster — part of China’s efforts to build its Tiangong space station — had orbited Earth for four days. Eventually, the drag of ...

In Australia, airline Qantas reported that its flights were also delayed by up to six hours as a result of falling space junk. In the past seven years, the number of space rocket launches has ...

operational risks" than those posed by the falling space debris. "The incident highlighted, among other things, a lack of preparation for this eventuality and a lack of harmonization of responses ...

Now scientists have found that using seismometers is a new and inexpensive method to detect falling space junk ... to Earth from the International Space Station. Debris from a different Chinese ...