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

The Saudi Space Agency announced on Tuesday the names of the winning teams of the global “DebriSolver” competition, one of ...

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

Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentation event months after ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Space debris entering the Earth’s atmosphere moves faster than the speed of sound and it's hard to predict where it will ...

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