Seismometers - equipment designed to pinpoint earthquakes - are now being used to track the thousands of pieces of human-made ...

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

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

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

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

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

Starlink's new FCC approval for 7,500 more satellites aims to boost service and capacity for millions. But at what cost?

Wood has several advantages over metal alloys as a satellite material. One is to reduce the amount of metal vaporising when ...

The first emergency operation in the history of China's human spaceflight program came to an end on Monday (Jan. 19) when an ...

Astronauts orbiting the Earth are drilled to deal with the worst possible scenarios. That includes having to leave a doomed ...