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 ...

A young student has taken on one of spaceflight's most urgent challenges: clearing Earth's orbit of debris. With his startup ...

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