Given the mounting number of objects in orbit, this is likely to be a more regular occurrence. It's costly in terms of damage to equipment, and increasingly a threat to life. When a piece of debris ...

Airlines have long treated thunderstorms, snow and volcanic ash as the main reasons to slow or stop flights. Now a new hazard ...

Low Earth orbit has quietly become one of the most crowded and hazardous environments humanity has ever created, with an ...

"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 ...

China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft's return from its Tiangong space station in early ...

One person's trash is another person's treasure, unless, of course, you're talking about space debris, since it's too tough to acquire without a shuttle or a spaceship. That's a shame because space ...

A large chunk of suspected space debris has been found in a remote part of the Australian desert, the country’s space agency confirmed Monday. The charred and smoldering object was found in the ...

China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there's nothing routine about its journey home. The ...