Regulations to monitor and control the descent of debris linked to both new launches and old satellites could save lives.

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

Humans are littering space with thousands of satellites, which pose a risk to climate and the environment, space ...

There's a 26% annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a busy flight area, ...

As the number of flights around the world grows and the amount of junk in space rises, the chances of a collision between the two is only increasing ...

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

Now, scientists have calculated the chance that falling rocket junk could enter the airspace, potentially striking an ...

Space debris plummeting back to Earth could ... "Uncontrolled rocket body reentries are a design choice, not a necessity," the study noted. "If controlled reentries were used by all operators ...

Researchers who have done the math say the risk of debris from rockets hitting aircraft, while still low, is only going to ...