The Chinese weather satellite Fengyun 1C was deliberately destroyed by China in an anti-satellite weapon test in 2007 and peppered low-Earth orbit with an estimated 3,000 pieces of shrapnel. In 2012, ...

Once upon a time, gazing at the night sky was an escape from manmade messiness on Earth. Not anymore. Nearly 70 years after the launch of Sputnik, there are so many machines flying through space, ...

China’s shadowy miniature spaceplane appears to have deployed at least six objects into orbit while conducting its latest mission, its third. The reusable space vehicle, which is understood to be ...

There's been very little information shared about the orbital vehicle, which launched in December 2023 for its third secretive mission. Reading time 2 minutes China’s curious spaceplane is at it again ...

Far from the bright glare of the Moon, a much smaller companion has been quietly keeping pace with Earth, looping around the ...

Four days after launching on its third-ever mission, China's mysterious Shenlong robotic space plane has apparently deployed 6 unknown objects in orbit. Some of them appear to be emitting signals.

HELSINKI — China’s experimental reusable spacecraft has released an unknown object into orbit while conducting its third mission. U.S. Space Force space domain awareness teams cataloged the object as ...

Low Earth orbit has quietly become one of the most crowded and hazardous environments humanity has ever created, with an ...