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

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

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

Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui and Chen Dong will extend their stay aboard the Tiangong space station after their capsule was hit by ...

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

Space debris entering the Earth’s atmosphere moves faster than the speed of sound and it's hard to predict where it will ...

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

Researchers are developing a real-life tractor beam, with the goal of pulling defunct satellites out of geostationary orbit to alleviate the space junk problem. When you purchase through links on our ...

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

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 ...

Airplane passengers crossing the Indian Ocean who peered out their windows on Oct. 19, 2024, might have seen what looked like a fast-moving star suddenly flash and fade. Above their heads, a $500 ...

(CNN) — Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to ...