Last month, a tiny piece of debris travelling at high speed cracked the window of the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft's return capsule ...

Space is no longer the final frontier it once seemed. Today, our planet's orbit resembles a cosmic junkyard where millions of debris pieces hurtle at devastating speeds, turning what should be ...

Millions of pieces of debris now circle Earth in space. Scientists are exploring new ways to remove them and protect future ...

China has begun hardening its Tiangong space station against the growing threat of orbital debris, installing new layers of ...

Dan Falk: Space junk broadly refers to stuff that’s in space that was put there by humans, and that is no longer doing what ...

This year sees a quarter of a century of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station (ISS), and to mark ...

A small piece of debris floating in Earth's orbit has damaged a portion of the International Space Station, according to a press release from the Canadian Space Agency. According to the May 28 press ...

High up in Earth's orbit, millions of human-made objects large and small are flying at speeds of over 15,000 miles per hour.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) R. Lincoln Hines, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) China’s ...

ALBATOR has a multi-million dollar grant to study touchless space junk removal. A new space debris removal project aims to blast hazardous junk out of harm's way from a distance, without the need for ...