L ast February, debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set the skies of Europe ablaze before crashing down to Earth in Poland, ...

Photo courtesy of Rome, Wisconsin Police Department Dozens of area residence saw a long lasting streak of sparks in the night ...

Space debris entering the Earth’s atmosphere moves faster than the speed of sound and it's hard to predict where it will ...

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

Scientists have just found a new way to track the uncontrolled reentry of falling space junk. As they punch into the ...

By mapping areas where seismometers in southern California detected sonic booms, researchers at Johns Hopkins University and ...

In A Nutshell Thousands of existing seismic stations worldwide can now help locate falling satellites before hazardous ...

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

The safety concern continues to increase into 2026 as researchers at the University of British Columbia predicted in a study published early 2025 that there will be a 26% chance space debris will fall ...

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.

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

A large cloud of tiny fragments revolves around Earth following satellite explosions, rocket stage malfunctions, and anti-satellite missile testing. These fragments—some as small as grains of ...