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

Blue tentacle-like arms attached to an Astrobee free-flying robot grab onto a "capture cube" in this image from Feb. 4, 2025.

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

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

SPACE debris raining down on Earth is increasingly at risk of causing “catastrophic” collisions with aircraft, a damning new report has revealed. A sharp rise in the number of rocket ...

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 ...

Mining ocean resources needed for electric cars and other devices is currently a hot issue of dispute. Final resolution of ...

When you look up at the night sky, you might not notice the ever-growing field of debris surrounding Earth. However, over ...

The founder of SpaceX said President Trump had asked his company to return two astronauts aboard the space station to Earth ...

Space debris plummeting back to Earth could be a growing problem for aircraft, researchers warned in a new study. The study authors, all affiliated with Canada's University of British Columbia ...

SpaceX said they were likely to have broken off from a Dragon spacecraft returning to Earth from the International Space Station. Debris from a different Chinese rocket in 2020 damaged villages in ...