As Beijing prepares to tackle space debris, transparency and trust will determine whether the effort is viewed as stewardship ...

Old rocket parts and decommissioned satellites are whizzing around in low Earth orbit, where they risk colliding with the ...

A Chinese aerospace company, Geovis Insighter Technology Co. Ltd., is preparing to launch an ambitious space situational awareness (SSA) network designed to monitor orbital traffic and debris in low ...

A new paper has listed the top 50 most problematic pieces of space debris currently in low Earth orbit (LEO). Most of them ...

Recent action by CNSA and commercial satellite operators to discuss spacecraft maneuvers “tells me there is a coordinated ...

Two astronauts from the three-person Shenzhou 20 mission installed additional shielding on Tiangong during a six-hour ...

BEIJING (AP) — China's space agency says a core segment of its biggest rocket has reentered Earth's atmosphere in the Indian Ocean above the Maldives. It said most of the debris burned up early Sunday ...

The 50 pieces of debris listed by Darren McKnight's team from the satellite observation company LeoLabs pose the greatest ...

Russia and China both possess anti-satellite capabilities that Japan views as a threat to its national security.

In 2003, Yang Liwei, the first Chinese astronaut to travel to space, reported hearing a strange, unexplained knocking sound while orbiting Earth aboard China’s Shenzhou 5 spacecraft. The event was ...

Two Chinese satellites have rendezvoused with one another more than 20,000 miles above the Earth in what analysts believe is the first high-altitude attempt at orbital refueling. China’s Shijian-21 ...

Two Chinese satellites have rendezvoused with one another more than 20,000 miles above the Earth in what analysts believe is the first high-altitude attempt at orbital refueling. China's Shijian-21 ...