Dan Falk: Space junk broadly refers to stuff that’s in space that was put there by humans, and that is no longer doing what ...

Satellite breakups and anti-satellite tests have created an alarming amount of debris, a crisis now exacerbated by the rapid expansion of commercial constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink. The ...

Shenzhou-20 crew returned home on Shenzhou-21 vessel Crew was stuck in China's space station for nine days Shenzhou-20 vessel remains in orbit after space debris damage Episode highlights danger from ...

Three Chinese astronauts who had been stranded for days in space after a suspected piece of space junk hit their spacecraft are back on Earth, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSE) ...

Early one February morning in 2025, Adam Borucki discovered something extraordinary behind his warehouse in Poland: a charred metal tank, roughly 1.5 meters across. It had crashed from space during ...

Asteroids contain large quantities of both precious and common metals, and despite the obvious challenges in reaching them, a few startups say these celestial bodies could offer a sustainable ...

Tiny chunks of space debris are believed to have struck the return vehicle of a Chinese crew of astronauts who were due to return to Earth following a mission at the nation's Tiangong space station.

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 ...

Ten months after its historic maiden liftoff, Blue Origin's hulking New Glenn rocket may launch for the second time Sunday, Nov. 9, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Blue Origin is targeting an ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Early risers got a glimpse of a celestial treat over the First Coast Saturday morning around 6:17 a.m. Space debris re-entered Earth's atmosphere, broke into many pieces, and ...

Rockets here launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Ahead of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, people in Florida reported seeing a ...

Objects that sent fiery streaks across the sky had Central Florida residents looking up and grabbing their cameras on Saturday morning, Nov. 8. One of those residents was David Tucker, of Ormond Beach ...