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

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

Some high-density airspace regions could have as high as a 26% of being affected by an uncontrolled rocket body reentry.

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 ...

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 ...

Uncontrolled space debris reentries are of growing concern. The prospect of leftovers from space hotfooting into the Earth's atmosphere can create a collision risk with aircraft in flight.

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 ...

Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth is posing an increased threat to aircraft while falling from space, according to new research. While the probability of space junk striking an ...

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 ...