The alarming finding forced China’s space agency to delay the affected crew’s return, triggering a convoluted game of musical ...

The satellite, launched 14 years ago, will make an uncontrolled re-entry Tuesday evening. NASA puts the risk of harm to anyone on Earth at "approximately 1 in 4,200." ...

A recent spacewalk conducted byChinese astronauts on the Shenzhou 21 mission sheds new light on the growing issue of space debris and its impact on spacecraft. The crew, led by Zhang Lu, ventured ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first emergency operation in the history of China's human spaceflight program came to an end on Monday (Jan. 19) when an ...

Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...

The original return plan was scrapped because a window in the Shenzhou-20 capsule had tiny cracks, most likely caused by impact from space debris, the space agency said on Friday. Three Chinese ...

Space debris, also known as space junk, consists of defunct man-made objects that orbit Earth, including satellites, spent rocket stages and other various fragments from collisions. According to the ...

M odern life provides enough for us to worry about without having to add space junk to that list. Unfortunately, it is ...