L ast February, debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set the skies of Europe ablaze before crashing down to Earth in Poland, ...

Every day, about three large fragments of decommissioned satellites and used rocket stages make their return into Earth's ...

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

Scientists found a new way to track falling space debris using earthquake sensors, helping improve safety and response time.

When large satellites crash to Earth, we have so far been largely blind to their trajectory. This could change thanks to ...

Earthquake sensors can detect sonic booms generated by reentering space debris to help track the potentially dangerous ...

Earthquake sensors are giving scientists a new way to track space junk as it falls back to Earth.

Every year, thousands of discarded artificial satellites are orbiting the planet, with an increasing number falling back into Earth’s atmosphere. Most of these objects will be destroyed before they ...

It is essential to monitor the human-made space junk in orbit, as some of them pose a risk to the population if they fall ...

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—poses a risk to humans when it falls to the ground. To locate possible crash sites, a Johns Hopkins University ...

Two scientists have developed an innovative technique that analyzes data collected by terrestrial seismic sensors to monitor ...