Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui and Chen Dong will extend their stay aboard the Tiangong space station after their capsule was hit by ...

"Do we react for everything which has a chance to reach the ground? Or do we react only for the very large objects, as we did ...

According to a paper published in early 2025, there is a 26 percent chance that space debris will pass through some of the ...

The safety concern continues to increase into 2026 as researchers at the University of British Columbia predicted in a study ...

Could a small piece of metal from space one day strike an airliner? This question is becoming more relevant. Man-made objects ...

ESA’s Zero Debris Vision sets six priority goals: preventing debris release, ensuring clearance at end-of-life, preventing ...

Space junk is raising safety concerns for aircraft, with a 2025 study warning of a 26% chance debris could pass through busy ...

Look in the night sky, and you’ll see planets, stars, maybe even a satellite. But what you don’t see are all the other objects floating around Earth -- also known as space junk. “Space debris put ...

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 ...