When a defunct Russian imaging satellite suddenly shattered in orbit, astronauts on the International Space Station were ordered into their return capsules and told to brace for impact. The incident, ...

When Sir Keir Starmer left for Beijing earlier this week, he probably didn’t imagine that a Chinese rocket would be ...

EXPERTS fear an abandoned Russian military satellite has broken up over Earth contributing to dangerous “space junk”. There are millions of pieces of debris orbiting the planet dumped ...

Low Earth orbit is starting to look less like pristine frontier and more like a crowded junkyard, packed with dead satellites, shattered rocket parts, and fragments from past collisions. Scientists ...

Space debris has been a major safety concern for operations for years now, but SpaceX and Starlink think they've found a way ...

A new study shows how earthquake monitors can better track space junk by tuning into their sonic booms CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how ...

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

Now, scientists have devised a clever new way to predict where the pieces may land.

Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...

How can scientists track space junk after it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere and impacts the ground? This is what a recent study ...