Engineers are set to test a device that could pull defunct spacecraft and used rocket parts back to Earth, allowing them to burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Future satellites could deploy solar sails to help take down pieces of space junk floating around Earth and a tiny new spacecraft hopes to make it possible. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China began an effort to manage the space junk orbiting Earth by attaching a giant sail to the rocket it launched last month, ...

Montgomery Gisborne estimates he's put in over 600 hours refinishing Hai Long, an authentic Chinese junk sailboat that he and his wife Daniela bought last fall. "Every day just goes to fix [the] boat.

The skies above are growing increasingly crowded with satellites zipping across Earth’s upper atmosphere, relaying signals for everything from the picture on your television to the map on your phone.

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A cottager in eastern P.E.I. will be spending time this summer sailing the coast in a boat of ancient Chinese design. The junk-rigged boat design dates back to the second century, and they are still ...