The study published on Nature.com highlights the threat growing space exploration can cause humanity back on Earth ...

Space debris is a real hazard to life on Earth, a physics expert has warned, highlighting the dangers of falling space junk ...

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

The call today is for binding rules to protect the orbits of Earth, Moon, and Mars from space debris contamination. Initiatives need to be formulated for effective, sustainable, and equitable ...

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

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

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

We've yet to see a falling piece of space debris strike an airplane, but if it happens, the consequences would almost ...

Our exploitation and exploration of space has left 13,000 tonnes of junk orbiting Earth. Defunct craft and larger pieces of debris are also colliding, adding to the millions of smaller fragments which ...

At the same time, the number of commercial flights operating around the world ... bodies orbiting earth just waiting to fall back in an uncontrolled manner. Space junk like this poses a real ...

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.

Pending international discussions on space traffic management, space debris removal, and limiting so-called space junk in Earth orbit could ... activities in and around moon orbits do not include ...