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

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

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 ...

As the threat of falling spacecraft increases, using earthquake sensors to detect the effects of their sonic booms could ...

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

Thousands of discarded human-made objects are circling Earth, and when pieces of that space debris fall back to the surface, they can pose risks to ...

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

Space debris entering the Earth's atmosphere moves faster than the speed of sound, producing sonic booms that trigger ...

The sensors used to listen for earthquakes could help protect people from the hazards created by falling spacecraft.

(CNN) — 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 ...