We have launched all manner of satellite and machinery into low-Earth orbit. But what goes up must come down. Most often, ...

We’re running against the clock here,” Tiago Soares, the lead engineer of the Clean Space office at ESA, warned, as yet ...

More than 45,000 pieces of debris larger than 10 cm are orbiting Earth. From 2035, it’s thought the space jukn could cause a ...

India has about 140 satellites in orbit as of December 2025, of which 57 are completely operational and 83 non-functional but ...

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 ...

A piece of space debris that hit a home in Naples, Florida, in March was a piece of the International Space Station, according to NASA. NASA had expected the debris — old and depleted nickel hydride ...

October is Space Month. At Duke University, space research is more than just science — it's a bold journey across disciplines. This is the fifth in a series of stories featuring innovators, dreamers, ...

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 ...

China's Shenzhou-21 crew of astronauts is technically currently stranded on board the Tiangong without a usable spacecraft at their disposal.

Every year, we shoot several thousand satellites and other objects out into space. When satellites die, they become space ...

HOUSTON -- The shuttle that will carry astronauts into space next month to repair the Hubble Space Telescope faces a greater risk than usual of a catastrophic collision with space debris, NASA ...