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

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can ...

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.

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.

Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentation event months after retirement, raising new concerns about debris in high Earth orbit.

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

Williams wasn’t injured by this mysterious item, which she later learned came from a space rocket—making her the first person ...

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

The second edition of the Space Debris 2026 Conference officially commenced today. Organized by the Saudi Space Agency (SSA), ...