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.

Artist's impressions of space junk and, inset, an airliner. dell640 / dottedhippo/iStock / Getty Images Plus. When space launches are used to ferry satellites up into orbit, spent rocket stages ...

A huge Chinese rocket body is expected to fall to Earth this weekend, but that doesn't mean you should scurry into a bunker. The doomed hunk of space junk is the core stage of the Long March 5B ...

Three pieces of space junk that fell on sheep farms in rural Australia were from a SpaceX rocket, the Australian Space Agency has confirmed.. Sheep farmer Mick Miners was the first to come forward ...

The Japanese satellite company Astroscale made a close approach of a large derelict rocket stage using its ADRAS-J spacecraft. The program aims to remove space junk in Earth orbit.

A space reconnaissance mission has returned unprecedented imagery of a metal hunk zooming around Earth.. The discarded three-ton rocket, a robust piece of space junk some 36 feet (11 meters) long ...

Astroscale’s space junk observation satellite has moved within striking distance to a discarded rocket upper stage that’s been floating around Earth for nearly 20 years, taking close-up ...

Astroscale’s ADRAS-J spacecraft will inspect a dead Japanese rocket in orbit—a major moment in space-junk removal. More than 9,000 metric tons of human-made metal and machinery are orbiting ...

The upper stage is from an H-2A rocket that flew the GOSAT Earth observation satellite. It’s about 36 feet long with a 13-foot diameter. ADRAS-J will observe the space junk as part of the ...