Space junk threatened the seven astronauts aboard the International Space Station on Monday, forcing them to seek shelter in their docked capsules and disrupting their work. The U.S. Space Command ...

The next time your Wi-Fi goes down, your internet provider might try to blame it on tiny flecks of paint, experts have told Metro. A big worry among scientists right now is ‘ space junk’, a rather ...

Space around Earth is filling with discarded hardware, shattered fragments and derelict satellites just as governments and ...

WASHINGTON -- Space junk orbiting Earth, which has disabled satellites and nearly hit the International Space Station, represents a growing threat that NASA needs to deal with better, the National ...

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 ...

Some problems grow quietly, almost politely, until they stop being ignorable. Space junk is one of those. It does not ...

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 ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has gotten a rare peek at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery.

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 ...

Without a doubt, there's no question that there'd be no International Space Station without Skylab. That's why this piece of ...