China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station ...
Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, with millions of pieces orbiting the Earth, and humans need to figure out a way to deal with it.
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The Astronomical Problem of Space Junk
Dan Falk: Space junk broadly refers to stuff that’s in space that was put there by humans, and that is no longer doing what ...
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Space debris forces China’s first emergency astronaut return swap
Space debris doesn’t only threaten satellites it can strand astronauts in orbit. That reality hit China’s Tiangong space station program in November, when a fragment smaller than a millimeter slammed ...
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Russian Soyuz capsule lands on Earth to return crew of 3 home after months on International Space Station (video)
Jonny Kim of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky of Roscosmos touched down in Kazakhstan on Tuesday (Dec. 9).
NASA's Jonny Kim and two cosmonauts are scheduled to land just after midnight on Tuesday (Dec. 9). Three astronauts will come ...
A lawsuit seeks to recover damages after unexpected bird strike triggered crash at NASA's former shuttle landing facility.
NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time helped scientists confirm that electrical sparks often ignite within ...
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