There is a one in four chance that a rocket debris could fall into a busy flight path, according to a new study. There is ...

A study recently released by the University of British Columbia puts the annual chance that space rocket debris will re-enter ...

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

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

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

As more spacecraft are launched, the risk increases that uncontrolled space debris - those without active guidance - will ...

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.

While some fallen rocket pieces have weighed several ... this study does not consider the risk posed to someone on the ground by falling space debris. A previous study by scientists from the ...

While the chance of debris hitting an aircraft is very low ... but many pieces still hurtle towards the ground. Rocket launches, flights increasing The researchers used the number of aircraft ...