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.

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

NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to go on a spacewalk without a tether. McCandless was wearing a type of jetpack known as the Manned Manoeuvring Unit, or MMU. The MMU fit over a ...

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes difficult pursuit of tracking deep-space objects.

A new study warns that as more rockets are launched into space, more debris will be left in Earth's orbit, which could result ...

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

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

Researchers from the University of British Columbia have calculated the chance that someone will be killed by a falling rocket striking their plane this year.

A person on X posted a picture last Tuesday. The picture was one of the pieces of the Space Shuttle Challenger recovered after its explosion on Jan. 28, 1986. The picture, posted by someone with the ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

On February 4, 1995, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery launched an itty bitty satellite called an Orbital Debris ...