A new study from the University of British Columbia reveals the growing danger of falling space debris striking an airplane.

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

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

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

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There is a one in four chance that a rocket debris could fall into a busy flight path, according to a new study. There is ...

A new study from researchers at UBC found that the chance of debris entering air space around major cities is as high as 26 per cent each year.

Space junk disrupting air traffic is far from unheard of. In 2022, a re-entering 20-tonne piece of rocket prompted Spanish and French aviation authorities to close parts of their airspace.

"Now that we have such growth in our use of outer space, a lot of the problems associated with that are coming to bear," said Boley, one of the authors of the paper. FILE - Debris from the space ...