The lone passenger who survived the crash that killed 241 people onboard couldn't believe he was alive when he opened his eyes, surrounded by flames, debris and charred bodies.

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that raised ...

The problem of space debris is well documented, and only set to grow in the near term as launch rates increase and fragmentation events escalate accordingly. The clutter of debris—which includes ...

which have already resulted in nearly 400 debris-generating events, according to NASA. In the last six months alone, space debris has crashed into Poland, near Turks and Caicos, and in Kenya.

The report says that if space debris buildup is not controlled soon, the area surrounding our planet may become so congested that we won't be able to use certain orbits. "This chain reaction can ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report that more than 6,600 tons of space junk are currently floating about in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), between 100 - 1,200 ...

Falling space junk produced by rocket launches poses a risk to the aviation industry—with a roughly one-in-four annual chance that a piece of debris will pass through busy airspace. This is the ...

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 ...

Space debris plummeting back to Earth could be a growing problem for aircraft, researchers warned in a new study. The study authors, all affiliated with Canada's University of British Columbia ...

Even the International Space Station often has to adjust its orbit to dodge debris. Currently there are more than 25,000 pieces of trackable human-made junk larger than 10 centimeters orbiting Earth.

In fact, though, human space exploration and industrialization has polluted the area around our planet, with the resulting debris known as space junk. The problem is expected to only grow as the ...

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