CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can better ...

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

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 ...

Falling satellites and large orbital debris create massive sonic booms and scientists are using them to track dangerous space ...

Low Earth orbit is starting to look less like pristine frontier and more like a crowded junkyard, packed with dead satellites, shattered rocket parts, and fragments from past collisions. Scientists ...

GOLDEN, CO — A university team has found that small orbital debris could emit radio bursts as they collide or approach each other in space. The signal can be detected with large radio dishes on Earth, ...

Low Earth orbit has quietly become one of the most crowded and hazardous environments humanity has ever created, with an estimated 130 M fragments of space junk now circling the planet at tens of ...