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

China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there's nothing routine about its journey home. The ...

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As private constellations expand at unprecedented speed — launching thousands of satellites each year — the governance gap has become a serious problem. What was once the domain of a few national ...

: [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION November 17, 2025: This story incorrectly refers to Georgia Tech as Georgia Tech University. Its official name is the Georgia Institute of Technology.] SACHA PFEIFFER, ...

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 ...

There are a lot of things in space: satellites, rockets and fragments from other missions like tools and screws that break off from spacecrafts. These materials all contribute to space debris, which ...

China’s rocket launches that passed over Palawan may seem harmless, but debris from separating rocket parts could pose ...

Asharq Al Awsat The second edition of the Space Debris 2026 Conference officially commenced today. Organized by the Saudi Space Agency (SSA), the conference is witnessing broad international ...

Now from airplanes to outer space. We have news of three Chinese astronauts who are finally back on Earth. They'd had to extend their stay on China's space station by more than a week due to space ...