Managing satellites in space also included the management of probes relative to the near-Earth orbital debris field. A rare outreach from China's space agency to NASA indicated a rare event in global ...

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 ...

Tiny chunks of space debris are believed to have struck the return vehicle of a Chinese crew of astronauts who were due to return to Earth following a mission at the nation's Tiangong space station.

Three Chinese astronauts are stranded aboard the country’s Tiangong space station after space debris allegedly struck the capsule they planned to fly home, Beijing’s space agency said. The Shenzhou-20 ...

Three Chinese taikonauts — Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui and Chen Dong — will be extending their stay aboard China's Tiangong space station after their return capsule was struck by a presumed piece of ...

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 ...