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 ...

China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to ...

Earlier this month, Google researchers released a paper about “Project Suncatcher,” the company’s research “moonshot” to ...

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

The spacecraft in question was the Shenzhou-20 capsule, which transported a crew of three astronauts to the Tiangong space ...

China has created more space debris than any other country. But as its space program grows, it has more to lose from a ...

China's space program has made steady progress since 2003, launching the space station and exploring Mars with a robotic ...

Space environment health score shows how healthy - or stressed - Earth’s orbit is expected to become over the next 200 years.

Shenzhou-20 astronauts safely return to Earth on Shenzhou-21 spacecraft after space debris damage concerns Three Chinese ...

A wrench was thrown in the plans of China's space program when debris struck Shenzhou-20's docked spacecraft earlier this ...

A mission meant to end with a routine return to Earth has turned into a tense survival operation. Three Chinese astronauts ...