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

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

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

Could a piece of debris no larger than a fingernail derail an entire manned space mission? For three Chinese astronauts ...

Not long before Shenzhou-20 was set to carry the three home it was struck by a piece of space debris, leaving cracks in one ...

Three Chinese astronauts are back on earth after they had to prolong their stay in outer space due to space debris hitting their spacecraft.

THREE Chinese astronauts stuck in orbit after being hit with fragments of space debris may be forced to deploy “plan B” to ...

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

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, ...

The Shenzhou 20 crew is led by commander Chen Dong, a veteran astronaut and former Chinese fighter pilot on his third trip to space. Two spaceflight rookies, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie, are also ...

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