Scientists have just found a new way to track the uncontrolled reentry of falling space junk. As they punch into the ...

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

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

Using this method to track uncontrolled objects plummeting at supersonic speeds, they said, could help recovery teams reach ...

By mapping areas where seismometers in southern California detected sonic booms, researchers at Johns Hopkins University and ...

Space debris might sound like something from science fiction, but it's becoming a daily reality for our planet. Every hour of every day, chunks of old satellites and rocket parts plummet through our ...

Space debris falling to Earth is a growing threat to aircraft, and experts are trying to reduce the risk.