Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui and Chen Dong — will be extending their stay aboard China's Tiangong space station after their return capsule was struck by a presumed piece of orbital debris on Wednesday.

"We're now in an era where there's multiple governments, multiple companies involved in space. So the shift is not just one ...

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 ...

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

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

The return of the three Shenzhou-20 astronauts was delayed for more than a week after their spacecraft was apparently hit by space debris.

China's Shenzhou-21 crew of astronauts is technically currently stranded on board the Tiangong without a usable spacecraft at ...

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

Astroscale's ADRAS-J mission completed fly arounds of a Japanese H-IIA rocket upper stage in 2024. The imagery would expect ...

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

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 the ...

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