China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft's return from its Tiangong space station in early ...

California-based TransAstra is testing an inflatable “Capture Bag” that comes in different sizes and is intended to catch ...

Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after they were briefly stranded at the nation's space station when space debris struck their vehicle.

China has a launch date for an uncrewed spacecraft that will replace one damaged by space debris while docked at the Tiangong ...

It can be challenging to quantify how much of a danger space debris poses. The International Civil Aviation Organization ...

Three Chinese astronauts whose return to Earth was delayed by space debris hitting their vessel last week landed in China on ...

Not long before Shenzhou-20 was set to carry the three home it was struck by a piece of space debris, leaving cracks in one ...

Look in the night sky, and you’ll see planets, stars, maybe even a satellite. But what you don’t see are all the other objects floating around Earth -- also known as space junk. “Space debris ...

Left unchecked, the space around our planet could get so cluttered with debris that we might not be able to use some orbits anymore, according to the latest European Space Agency (ESA) report on ...

A team of scientists at Empa’s Center for X-Ray Analytics in Switzerland has X-rayed a satellite that was first launched into ...