The possibility had been brought up during the spacewalk when a piece of unidentified debris strayed a little close to the orbit of ISS. No one was ever in any danger, NASA emphasized during the ...

NASA's safety panel ... astronauts from performing spacewalks. Some of those problems are beyond the control of NASA. Sirangelo cited the growing orbital debris population that has sharply ...

the first launch for NASA's Space Launch System rocket. As the space industry grows, it's safe to say incidents of space debris hurtling back to Earth will only become more frequent – and they ...

NASA firmly denied the accusations. In November, Russia launched a missile at one of its defunct satellites as a weapons test. The explosion scattered thousands of bits of high-speed debris ...

Russian cosmonauts typically pair up together for spacewalks, although NASA and European Space Agency astronauts occasionally ventured out with them years ago. Before tackling the arm installation ...

Kevin Fong asks NASA astronaut and spacewalk veteran, Dan Tani, why space suits contain the same material as a bulletproof vest. The astronaut explains that even tiny pieces of debris in space ...

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — NASA on Tuesday unveiled a new batch of images from its new powerful space telescope, including a foamy blue and orange shot of a dying star. The first image from the $10 ...

NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere ... There was no reported damage in a western Philippine region where debris from the final stage of a rocket that launched part of China's ...