The first launch for a coming Chinese internet megaconstellation turned out to be quite messy. Last Tuesday (Aug. 6) a Chinese Long March 6A rocket launched the first 18 satellites for the Qianfan ...

Two Chinese astronauts continued installing space debris protection outside the nation's Tiangong space station this week. Ye Guangfu and Li Cong, two members of the three-person Shenzhou 18 ...

Mysterious streaks of light spotted over California were caused by Chinese space junk plummeting back to Earth, experts said. Residents from Sacramento to San Diego were dazzled by the light show ...

Related: Chinese launch next week will set stage for another big space-junk crash The Aerospace Corporation's panel of experts made sure to note that they were not attempting to overhype the event ...

A big piece of Chinese space junk crashed to Earth over Southern California early Tuesday morning (April 2), putting on quite a show for observers in the Golden State. The fall created a blazing ...

Of the nearly 5,000 satellites still in orbit around the Earth, only around 2,000 remain operational, meaning that the rest is now classified as space junk ... piece of a Chinese rocket smashed ...

The Chinese company aims to build out a 15,000-satellite network by 2030 to provide broadband internet globally, referred to as "Thousand Sails Constellation." If the premise sounds similar ...

Online speculators seemed to coalesce Tuesday around the idea that some type of space junk such as an old rocket ... creating the impressive display. The Chinese orbital module launched into ...