The video revealed that space has quietly become a militarized warzone, with satellites carrying cannons, lasers, and ...
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 ...
Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after they were briefly stranded at the nation's space station when space ...
Three veteran Chinese astronauts are home after being stuck for more than a week longer than planned aboard the Tiangong space station. Their return capsule was hit and damaged by space debris ...
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 Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) R. Lincoln Hines, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) China’s ...