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

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

Two scientists have developed an innovative technique that analyzes data collected by terrestrial seismic sensors to monitor ...

Space agencies have long worried about what happens when old satellites and rocket parts fall back through the atmosphere, ...

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

Every year, thousands of discarded artificial satellites are orbiting the planet, with an increasing number falling back into Earth’s atmosphere. Most of these objects will be destroyed before they ...

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

When large satellites crash to Earth, we have so far been largely blind to their trajectory. This could change thanks to ...

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

Scientists found a new way to track falling space debris using earthquake sensors, helping improve safety and response time.

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