Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments ...

Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their ...

Earthquake sensors are giving scientists a new way to track space junk as it falls back to Earth.

Now, scientists have devised a clever new way to predict where the pieces may land.

Space debris entering the Earth’s atmosphere moves faster than the speed of sound and it's hard to predict where it will ...

Earthquake sensors can detect sonic booms generated by reentering space debris to help track the potentially dangerous ...

On April 2, 2024, the night sky over Southern California tore open. A streak of fire ripped through the atmosphere, traveling ...

As the threat of falling spacecraft increases, using earthquake sensors to detect the effects of their sonic booms could ...

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to ...

Space debris is becoming an overwhelming problem. With operators increasingly sending satellites and other ...

When Sir Keir Starmer left for Beijing earlier this week, he probably didn’t imagine that a Chinese rocket would be threatening Britain within days.