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 ...

Imagine looking up at the night sky and spotting a huge, mysterious interstellar object racing through space, coming from far beyond our solar system. It is moving fast, and it seems to be heading in ...

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.

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Astronomers realized that a strange cloud of gas was actually a relic of the ancient universe which might help solve some of ...

A bewilderingly powerful mystery object found in a nearby galaxy and only visible so far in millimeter radio wavelengths could be a brand new astrophysical object unlike anything astronomers have seen ...

Objects in orbit that fall to Earth can pose a risk to life and infrastructure. Research outlines a new method to follow ...

Just in May of this year, the Soviets struck a ground target from orbit. Never mind that they didn't intend to; in fact, never mind that there are no 'Soviets' anymore. A piece of Cosmos 482, a rocket ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

For example, a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) trained on thousands of radar echoes can recognize the unique spatial signature of a small metallic fragment, even when its signal is partially masked ...