As more spacecraft are launched, the risk increases that uncontrolled space debris - those without active guidance - will ...

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 ...

Space junk is a major threat with millions of debris pieces now in orbit. Risks range from minor collisions reducing the ...

That junk was a 3,300-pound module that detached from China’s main Shenzhou ... Earth from the International Space Station. Debris from a different Chinese rocket in 2020 damaged villages ...

While Digantara Aerospace launched the world's first commercial satellite, Pixxel became the first private company in India ...

New Chairman of Congressional subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Mike Haridopolos says it would be great to see NASA ...

North Korea placed its first satellite in orbit in December 2012 using a rocket ... space debris, which already threatens U.S. space assets and assured access to the domain. China's demonstrated ...

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

There's a 26% annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a busy flight area, according to a UBC study. The study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.

The risk of rogue rocket debris and other man-made space junk colliding with planes is a growing challenge that’s only going ...

The rocket's upper stage blew up at an altitude of around 90 miles (146 kilometers) according to astronomer and space debris expert Jonathan McDowell, and weighed some 85 tons without propellant.