Thousands of satellites are being launched into space at low Earth orbit, joining hundreds of thousands of pieces of space ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronauts aboard the Chinese space station (shown) and those aboard the International Space Station are vulnerable to hits by ...

A falling piece of space junk from the ISS crashed through two floors of a Florida family's house in March. The family has now asked NASA to pay for the damages. When you purchase through links on our ...

The ISS is set to retire by 2030, but uncertainty over its replacement is raising concerns about a potential gap in space ...

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 ...

Katherine Courtney and Alice Gorman talk to Margaret Harris about the danger of space debris – and what we need to do about ...

BEIJING (AP) — Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation’s space station Friday after more than a week’s delay because the return capsule they had planned to use was damaged, likely from ...

China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft's return from its Tiangong space station in early ...