Every day, about three large fragments of decommissioned satellites and used rocket stages make their return into Earth's ...

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

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 ...

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

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

What goes up must come down! Dan Smith shows how pieces of falling space junk can be tracked by their sonic booms. ☄️🔊 ...

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

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

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

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.