Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after they were briefly stranded at the nation's space station when space ...

The spacecraft in question was the Shenzhou-20 capsule, which transported a crew of three astronauts to the Tiangong space ...

China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to ...

THREE Chinese astronauts stuck in orbit after being hit with fragments of space debris may be forced to deploy “plan B” to return to Earth. China’s Shenzhou-20 manned spacecraft ...

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

Three Chinese astronauts are back on earth after they had to prolong their stay in outer space due to space debris hitting their spacecraft.

The risk of flights being hit by space junk is still small, but it’s growing. About three pieces of old space equipment —used rockets and defunct satellites—fall into Earth’s atmosphere every day, ...

A mission meant to end with a routine return to Earth has turned into a tense survival operation. Three Chinese astronauts ...

Space environment health score shows how healthy - or stressed - Earth’s orbit is expected to become over the next 200 years.

A Munich student has taken on one of spaceflight's most urgent challenges: clearing Earth's orbit of debris. The 22- year-old student from the Technical University of Munich in Germany shrugs when ...

It can be challenging to quantify how much of a danger space debris poses. The International Civil Aviation Organization ...