When Sir Keir Starmer left for Beijing earlier this week, he probably didn’t imagine that a Chinese rocket would be ...

When a defunct Russian imaging satellite suddenly shattered in orbit, astronauts on the International Space Station were ordered into their return capsules and told to brace for impact. The incident, ...

EXPERTS fear an abandoned Russian military satellite has broken up over Earth contributing to dangerous “space junk”. There are millions of pieces of debris orbiting the planet dumped ...

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 ...

In 1978, NASA scientist Donald Kessler warned that runaway collisions in orbit could trigger a self-sustaining debris cascade, making space travel nearly impossible. Decades later, crowded orbits, ...

Space debris consists of defunct man-made objects that orbit Earth, including satellites, spent rocket stages & other fragments.

Learn more about Point Nemo, a remote area in the Pacific where the ISS will be sent in 2030 or 2031.

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 lost ...

The International Space Station is the largest space outpost ever built, but it's not the only one up there and there a more on the way soon.

One of the lead scientists, NASA intern Ashley Ohall, built a newly published reference library with nearly 25,000 molecular “fingerprints,” according to NASA. Some of the items included with the ...

NASA's SpaceX Crew--11 mission safely splashed down off the coast of California early Thursday morning, returning from a science expedition onboard the International Space Station (ISS). The crew's ...