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

Earthquake sensors can detect sonic booms generated by reentering space debris to help track the potentially dangerous ...

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

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

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

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

It is essential to monitor the human-made space junk in orbit, as some of them pose a risk to the population if they fall ...

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

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

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

When space debris enters Earth’s atmosphere, some of it ends up at Point Nemo, a remote area of the Pacific Ocean with depths of around 13,000 feet. The World’s Carolyn Beeler speaks with Moriba K.

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.