Space exploration is no longer the domain of countries alone. It’s now rapidly becoming the domain of private interests. Astrophysicist Aaron Boley discusses the impact of this on humanity and ...

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

They calculate that the odds of a passenger being killed by space debris in any given year are 1 in 2,200. This is likely to be a conservative estimate as it only considers the risk of falling ...

have sounded the alarm on the bell on the consequences of collision between space debris and an aircraft. The team looked at worldwide flight data, model distributions of planes in the sky and ...

The resulting model showed just how likely a hurtling ... per cent chance someone on the ground will get hit by falling space junk — a prospect made plain to Canadians last year when a suspected ...

and how it will contribute to mitigating space debris issue. Takao Doi, an astronaut and professor at Kyoto University, holding an engineering model of LignoSat; Image: Reuters LignoSat ...