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

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

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

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

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 ...

A Munich student has taken on one of spaceflight's most urgent challenges: clearing Earth's orbit of debris. With his startup ...

In 2021, ominous footage of a blazing object streaking across the skies of the American Midwest and vanishing just over the ...

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

The risk of flights being hit by space junk is still small, but it’s growing. About three pieces of old space equipment —used rockets and defunct satellites—fall into Earth’s atmosphere every day, ...

Space debris is creating growing problems for space operations. It includes any artificial objects in orbit not operating as satellites or spacecraft.