Space debris is an escalating concern. According to an April 2025 report from the European Space Agency, an estimated 1.2 million pieces of potentially hazardous space junk are in Earth orbit – and ...

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

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

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

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

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

As global numbers of space launches relentlessly skyrocket, so, too, does the amount of dangerous space debris that reenters ...

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

Researchers present a novel way to track errant space debris as it falls to Earth in near-real-time, according to a new study. Their method uses ground-based seismic sensors. Over the last several ...

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