NASA is assessing the potential risk of a piece of space debris that’s been spotted heading toward the International Space Station (ISS). The space agency said the debris is a piece of an old rocket and may come close to the ISS early on Friday. Related Videos NASA said the seven crew members aboard the…
The seven astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were forced to take shelter in the Crew Dragon and Soyuz spacecraft early on Monday as the orbiting outpost came close to a cloud of hazardous space junk. Contents NASA response Dangers of space junk According to NASA, the junk had been created after Russia destroyed…
The space around our planet is increasingly filling up with junk, from pieces of broken satellites to discarded rocket stages. This debris threatens space exploration and research, from the International Space Station to the Hubble Space Telescope, and we still don’t have a good plan on how to clear it up. One of the reasons…