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 ...

Objects in orbit that fall to Earth can pose a risk to life and infrastructure. Research outlines a new method to follow ...

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

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

Atomic-6's innovative Space Armor tiles will finally be put to the test later this year.

Despite decades of warnings, governments and private companies have continued launching missions with little plan for what ...

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

The first emergency operation in the history of China's human spaceflight program ended on Jan. 19 when an uncrewed Shenzhou ...

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and cloud services has led to a massive demand for computing power. The surge has strained data infrastructure, which requires lots of electricity to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft – shown here hitching a ride on a Long March-2F carrier rocket – was hit by a piece of space debris ...