"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 for the Long March?" ...

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

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

Despite decades of warnings, governments and private companies have continued launching missions with little plan for what ...

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 ...

Three Chinese astronauts have been temporarily stranded in space after the vehicle they were meant to travel aboard back to Earth was hit by space debris. Just how much damage the vehicle sustained ...

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

Atomic-6 unveiled a new 'Space Armor' material that can withstand hypervelocity impacts with zero debris, aimed at protecting ...

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 ...

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