"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 for the Long March?" ...

(CNN) — Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to ...

Space junk is raising safety concerns for aircraft, with a 2025 study warning of a 26% chance debris could pass through busy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft – shown here hitching a ride on a Long March-2F carrier rocket – was hit by a piece of space debris ...

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 ...

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.

Orbital debris stopped being an abstract risk in 2025 and briefly became a live emergency, forcing operators to scramble spacecraft out of harm’s way and exposing how fragile the rules of the road in ...

What appears to be space debris was found in rural Australia, but don't fret, this is not the beginning of an alien invasion or something out of a sci-fi movie. On Saturday, Oct. 18, at around 2 p.m.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) R. Lincoln Hines, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) China’s ...