The age-old question of what would happen if you threw a paper airplane out of the International Space Station (ISS) has been ...

In 2022, Spain and France closed some of the countries' airspace when a 20-ton rocket body was about to reenter the atmosphere, according to the paper. The rocket body ended up plummeting into the ...

A new paper from Maximilien Berthet and Kojiro Suzuki from the University of Tokyo looks at “the dynamics of an origami space plane during Earth atmospheric reentry” – in other words, what happens ...

Scientists predict that there are currently more than 30,000 pieces of space junk orbiting above the Earth, and some are large enough to make their way back down to dry land with little warning.