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

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.

The United States remains “unacceptably vulnerable” to a dangerous form of escalation by Russia in space, including the possibility of a nuclear detonation that could cripple satellites and disrupt ...

Space agencies have long struggled to predict where large chunks of space hardware will come down, often with error bars that ...

Falling satellites and large orbital debris create massive sonic booms and scientists are using them to track dangerous space ...

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

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

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

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

US government has privately informed lawmakers and European allies about Russia's alleged plans to deploy a space weapon with ...

Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk’s Starlink ...

Space debris is becoming an overwhelming problem. With operators increasingly sending satellites and other ...