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Pieces of a runaway Chinese rocket have rained down on the Indian Ocean, quelling fears it would hit people or property mmcfalljohnsen@insider.com (Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Kelsey Vlamis) © China Daily via Reuters The Long March-5B Y2 rocket, carrying the core module of China's space station Tianhe, takes off from Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province, China April 29, 2021. China Daily via Reuters An uncontrolled Chinese rocket reentered Earth's atmosphere and landed in the Indian Ocean Saturday. The rocket had been hurtling towards Earth for a week, with no one know...

An uncontrolled Chinese rocket reentered Earth's atmosphere and landed in the Indian Ocean Saturday. The rocket had been hurtling towards Earth for a week, with no one knowing when or where it would land. The landing quelled fears that debris from the rocket might have fallen on people or property. A Chinese rocket falling toward Earth at around 18,000 miles an hour reentered the atmosphere late Saturday, landing in the Indian Ocean near the Maldives, China's space agency reported, according to the South China Morning Post. It was the 22.5-ton core stage of China's Long March 5B rocket, which...

The Chinese space agency said most of the rocket was destroyed during re-entry.

Pieces of a runaway Chinese rocket have rained down on the Indian Ocean facebook email WENCHANG, CHINA - APRIL 29: A Long March-5B Y2 rocket carrying the core module of Chinas space station, Tianhe, blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on April 29, 2021 in Wenchang, Hainan Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images) An uncontrolled Chinese rocket reentered Earth's atmosphere and landed in the Indian Ocean Saturday. The rocket had been hurtling towards Earth for a week, with no one knowing when or where it would land. The landing quelled fears that debris from the roc...

Experts expect about 5 to 9 metric tons of rocket parts to rain down somewhere on Earth. The rocket stage is circling much of the inhabited world, but it will most likely land in the ocean. Sometime this weekend, somewhere on Earth, it's probably going to rain rocket parts. That's because a 22.5-ton cylinder is hurtling around the planet uncontrolled, losing altitude with each lap. It's the body of China's Long March 5B rocket, which launched the first module of the country's new space station last week. The rocket body is expected to fall to Earth sometime this weekend, most likely on Saturd...