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 ...

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

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

Networks created to measure quakes deep underground could also track old, potentially dangerous satellites burning up in the ...

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

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

Orion Space Solutions (Orion), a wholly owned subsidiary of Arcfield, announced today a follow-on subcontract from Advanced Space to support Phase 2 of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects ...

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

Cutting space-tracking efforts risks collisions — and U.S. leadership in commercializing outer space. September 1, 2025 at 7:00 a.m. EDTToday at 7:00 a.m. EDT ...

China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there's nothing routine about its journey home. The ...

A large cloud of tiny fragments revolves around Earth following satellite explosions, rocket stage malfunctions, and anti-satellite missile testing. These fragments—some as small as grains of ...