Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their ...

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can better ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

A bus-size asteroid is racing through space on a trajectory that will bring it close to Earth, and NASA is watching it with ...