Zhang Lu, Wu Fei, and Zhang Hongzhang climbed out of a spacecraft that was never supposed to bring them home. The three ...
A group of Chinese astronauts are facing a delayed return to Earth after their spacecraft was believed to have been struck by a tiny piece of space debris. Their return to Earth was originally ...
These are the parts of the vehicle that separate from the first stage of a rocket and push a satellite or spacecraft into orbit. In the early decades of spaceflight, the Soviet Union, the United ...
As of early 2026, there are around 15,800 tonnes of space junk floating in the atmosphere – equivalent to the weight of ...
As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can better track incoming objects by tuning into their sonic booms. Scientists reported Thursday that seismic ...