Researchers present a novel way to track errant space debris as it falls to Earth in near-real-time, according to a new study. Their method uses ground-based seismic sensors. Over the last several ...

Chinese upper stage of the launch vehicle has broken up in low Earth orbit soon after launching into orbit on the June 9 ...

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — 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. Scientists ...

It’s one extraordinary thing to launch the product of mankind’s brilliant minds into the cosmos, but it’s another to keep track of it long after the mission ends. We’ve explored before how important ...

Researchers have discovered that the same sensors used to detect earthquakes are the key to tracking the growing swarm of space junk plummeting toward Earth. As the orbital highway becomes ...

Forward-looking: The same instruments built to record earthquakes could soon help track spacecraft tearing back through Earth's atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. In a study published in Science, ...

A fragmentation event involving a Chinese launch vehicle upper stage has created a rapidly expanding debris field in one of the most heavily used regions of space, placing operational satellites and ...

In a visualization by the space tracking company ExoAnalytic, China’s Shijian-21 satellite is seen docking with Compass G2, a defunct Chinese satellite in geostationary Earth orbit. Credit: ...