Space Junk

With just a few days left before China's Tiangong-1 space station is expected to come crashing down on Earth, astronomers captured this incredible view of the derelict craft zooming through space.

Heat and friction will destroy the space station.

So, you found a piece of space debris. Now what?

The uncontrolled fall to Earth of China's Tiangong-1 space lab may share some similarities with the end of the Skylab space station in 1979; some of Skylab's pieces rained down on rural Australia.

The one-module station is in an uncontrolled fall and will re-enter the atmosphere somewhere underneath the spacecraft's orbit, but nobody knows exactly when or where that will happen.

China's Tiangong-1 space station isn't the first spacecraft to shed bits of junk onto Earth, and it won't be the last.

The impending re-entry of China's Tiangong-1 space station is being closely monitored, but experts still can't say exactly when and where the bus-size laboratory will fall to Earth.

China’s Tiangong-1 space lab will likely fall to Earth between March 30 and April 2, according to the latest prediction by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany.

A Chinese space station is going to fall out of space, and now trackers know when. Kind of.

The Singapore-based company Astroscale wants to make the removal of space debris profitable.

A new forecast by the European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office predicts that the 8.5-ton Tiangong-1 spacecraft will fall back to Earth between March 30 and April 6.

Concerns about space junk and satellite-launch regulations are swirling after the Federal Communications Commission alleged that a U.S. company launched four tiny satellites without permission.

China's 8.5-ton Tiangong-1 spacecraft is now expected to fall into Earth's atmosphere between March 24 and April 19, European Space Agency officials said.

Lasers: the ultimate cleaning solution.

The Aerospace Corp.'s Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies (CORDS) is sponsoring a guessing game about when China's Tiangong-1 space lab will fall to Earth.

How many tiny bits of space debris are pummeling the International Space Station day after day? A new experiment headed into orbit this week will find out.