Russia's space program has taken a drubbing in recent years, its reputation battered by corruption scandals, shrinking ...

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 ...

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 ...

China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station ...

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 ...

More than 45,000 pieces of debris larger than 10 cm are orbiting Earth. From 2035, it’s thought the space jukn could cause a ...

Space debris – the collection of defunct human-made objects in Earth’s orbit – is already affecting space agencies, companies and astronauts. This debris includes large pieces, such as spent rocket ...

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Earlier this month, the China Manned Space Agency was forced to delay the return of three astronauts from its Tiangong space station after they discovered “tiny cracks” in their return capsule’s ...

In 2024, the DRC experienced an uptick in primary forest loss, with 590,000 hectares of forest lost, according to satellite data visualized on Global Forest Watch. Subsistence agriculture continues to ...

Beijing — China launched the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft on Tuesday to help bring back a team of astronauts after a damaged spacecraft left them temporarily stranded on China's space station. The Shenzhou ...