There's a 26 per cent annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a busy flight area, according to a recent study. While the chance of debris hitting an aircraft ...

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.

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

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One of the primary locations you'll encounter in Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is the Wellspring. There is something of a civil war erupting there, which, naturally, means you are going to end up ...

PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...

A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in space minutes after launching from Texas on Thursday, forcing airline flights over the Gulf of Mexico to alter course to avoid falling debris and setting back ...

The upper stage of the SpaceX Starship rocket exploded during a flight test his space company conducted ... UPPER STAGE LOST ON SEVENTH TEST FLIGHT, DEBRIS SEEN SPEWING IN SKY "Initial data ...