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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft – shown here hitching a ride on a Long March-2F carrier rocket – was hit by a piece of space debris ...

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 ...

Lesley Masters is affiliated with Visiting Fellow Institute for Diplomacy and International Affairs, Loughborough London. Visiting International Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa ...

China’s crewed space program has just been stress tested by the very problem experts have warned about for years: a dangerous strike from orbiting junk that crippled a spacecraft and forced an ...

High up in Earth's orbit, millions of human-made objects large and small are flying at speeds of over 15,000 miles per hour. The objects, which range from inactive satellites to fragments of equipment ...

Space debris is a growing problem, and not just in Earth orbit. Once a week, on average, a spacecraft (or part of one) falls back into Earth's atmosphere; most of these objects are empty rocket stages ...