Latest News About Space Junk and Orbital Debris

China's Shenzhou 18 mission staged an emergency drill recently to boost preparedness aboard the country's Tiangong space station.

Satellites in SpaceX's Starlink megaconstellation made nearly 50,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers in the last six months, about double the number made in the previous half-year.

The next quarter-century in space exploration could be historic, the era in which humanity finally establishes a foothold on the moon and Mars.

A Saskatchewan farmer's near miss with potentially lethal debris falling from orbit highlights the skyrocketing risks and murky politics of space junk.

Astroscale's ADRAS-J spacecraft snapped a striking image of a rocket body floating lifeless above a blue-and-white Earth, with the sun's glare reflecting off of it.

Two Chinese astronauts continued installing space debris protection outside the nation's Tiangong space station during a July 3 EVA.

SpaceX has established a debris hotline and a special email address to aid folks who may have found fallen pieces of the company's hardware.

A Florida family has filed a claim with NASA after discarded components from the International Space Station crashed through their house.

A discarded Japanese rocket was recently imaged up close by the ADRAS-J mission.

Japan plans to launch the world's first wooden satellite this year, in an effort to reduce the environmental impacts of reentering spacecraft.