They are not the first to be stuck in space, and, if space junk has anything to do with it, they won't be the last.

Chinese astronauts stranded in space after suspected orbital debris hits return capsule - Replacement crew already reached ...

With trampoline parks all the rage, you might be considering adding one to your kids’ toy rotation. They're a great source of ...

On Saturday, a huge chunk of what is almost certainly space junk was found lying in the middle of a desert road in Western ...

What appears to be space debris was found in rural Australia, but don't fret, this is not the beginning of an alien invasion or something out of a sci-fi movie. On Saturday, Oct. 18, at around 2 p.m.

Alice Gorman is a Fellow of the Outer Space Institute. The mysterious object was on fire and lying in the middle of a remote dirt road in Western Australia’s Pilbara region when mine workers stumbled ...

The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed Sunday that it is investigating an airliner that was struck by an object in its windscreen, mid-flight, over Utah. “NTSB gathering radar, weather, ...

One person's trash is another person's treasure, unless, of course, you're talking about space debris, since it's too tough to acquire without a shuttle or a spaceship. That's a shame because space ...

Just in May of this year, the Soviets struck a ground target from orbit. Never mind that they didn't intend to; in fact, never mind that there are no 'Soviets' anymore. A piece of Cosmos 482, a rocket ...

Elon Musk’s race to dominate our planet’s orbit with his satellite constellations is creating tons of space junk — enough of it, in fact, that we might want to start looking up. The alarming statistic ...

A new paper has listed the top 50 most problematic pieces of space debris currently in low Earth orbit (LEO). Most of them are from the last century and pose a serious risk of breaking into finer, ...