Moriba Jah, a space debris expert and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said the incident highlights the growing dangers in orbit.

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

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 ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's Shenzhou-20 crewed spacecraft has delayed its return mission to Earth after the vessel was possibly hit by tiny bits of space debris, the country's human spaceflight agency ...

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 ...

"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 ...

GOLDEN, CO — A university team has found that small orbital debris could emit radio bursts as they collide or approach each other in space. The signal can be detected with large radio dishes on Earth, ...

High up in Earth's orbit, millions of human-made objects large and small are flying at speeds of over 15,000 miles per hour. The objects, which range from inactive satellites to fragments of equipment ...