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 ...
The Shenzhou 20 spacecraft was too damaged to bring its crew home from China’s Tiangong space station. Those astronauts have ...
The Shenzhou-20 crew of Chen Dong, Wang Jie and Chen Zhongrui have landed back on Earth after a suspected piece of space junk ...
Early one February morning in 2025, Adam Borucki discovered something extraordinary behind his warehouse in Poland: a charred ...
On Saturday, a huge chunk of what is almost certainly space junk was found lying in the middle of a desert road in Western Australia, according to the Australian Space Agency. Its exact origins aren’t ...
Internet sleuths may have found evidence that it wasn’t space debris that hit a United Airlines flight last week, but a weather balloon. A WindBorne balloon, to be precise, seemed to be the culprit, ...
Alice Gorman is a Fellow of the Outer Space Institute. The mysterious object was on fire and lying in the middle of a remote dirt road in Western Australia’s Pilbara region when mine workers stumbled ...
The mysterious object was on fire and lying in the middle of a remote dirt road in Western Australia's Pilbara region when mine workers stumbled upon it. Shortly after the enigmatic item was found on ...
Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...
Never content to pollute only the Earth’s surface, oceans, and atmosphere, billionaire tech moguls like Elon Musk are increasingly flooding our planet’s orbit with debris from their for-profit space ...