When Sir Keir Starmer left for Beijing earlier this week, he probably didn’t imagine that a Chinese rocket would be ...

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can better track incoming objects by tuning into their sonic booms.

Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments ...

Networks created to measure quakes deep underground could also track old, potentially dangerous satellites burning up in the atmosphere, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated. “We’d like ...

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

On February 4, 1995, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery launched an itty bitty satellite called an Orbital Debris ...

When a Russian satellite shattered in orbit, the fragments did not simply drift away into the void. They spread into busy ...

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

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