Researchers calculated both the odds of falling rocket debris disrupting air travel, but also colliding with an aircraft ...

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

As rockets soar into the cosmos, a hidden danger lurks above us. Space debris, remnants of our celestial ambitions, threatens ...

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

At the same time, the number of commercial flights operating around the world is projected to increase above 38 million this year. If space junk falls into increasingly congested airspace ...

Uncontrolled space debris reentries are of growing concern. The prospect of leftovers from space hotfooting into the Earth's ...

Rocket bodies tend to be massive and heat resistant, posing an increased risk. Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth is posing an increased threat to aircraft while falling from space ...

as launches increase and satellites accumulate in orbit, the odds for catastrophe will climb. Uniform regulations and monitoring globally could minimize the chances of injury or death from space ...

The risk of rogue rocket debris and other man-made space junk colliding with planes ... traffic and commercial airline flights increase, experts warn. New research published in Scientific Reports ...

And the rocket fell. It was “one of the largest pieces of debris re-entering in the near past,” EU Space Surveillance and Tracking said at the time. Spain closed part of its airspace along the ...

Scientists predict that there are currently more than 30,000 pieces of space junk orbiting above the Earth, and some are ...

Portugal and Greece that did not close saw an "unexpected increase in air traffic" from diverted flights, creating "different, operational risks" than those posed by the falling space debris.