When Sir Keir Starmer left for Beijing earlier this week, he probably didn’t imagine that a Chinese rocket would be threatening Britain within days.

Space debris consists of defunct man-made objects that orbit Earth, including satellites, spent rocket stages & other fragments.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft – shown here hitching a ride on a Long March-2F carrier rocket – was hit by a piece of space debris ...

Three Chinese astronauts have been temporarily stranded in space after the vehicle they were meant to travel aboard back to Earth was hit by space debris. Just how much damage the vehicle sustained ...

Learn more about Point Nemo, a remote area in the Pacific where the ISS will be sent in 2030 or 2031.

Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...

Two scientists have developed an innovative technique that analyzes data collected by terrestrial seismic sensors to monitor ...

The International Space Station is the largest space outpost ever built, but it's not the only one up there and there a more ...