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

When a defunct Russian imaging satellite suddenly shattered in orbit, astronauts on the International Space Station were ordered into their return capsules and told to brace for impact. The incident, ...

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

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

Now, scientists have devised a clever new way to predict where the pieces may land.

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

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

The Space Development Agency (SDA) announced on December 19 four awards to procure 72 satellites for its Tranche 3 Tracking Layer constellation. The launch is part of the Proliferated Warfighter Space ...

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Space debris is becoming an overwhelming problem. With operators increasingly sending satellites and other ...

U.S. Space Command’s Global Sentinel ‘25 Capstone event at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, is a security cooperation effort to strengthen and grow international partnerships. Credit: U.S.

A way of accurately tracking potentially deadly space junk as it falls to Earth has been devised. Seismometers usually used ...