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.

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.

Using this method to track uncontrolled objects plummeting at supersonic speeds, they said, could help recovery teams reach ...

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 global numbers of space launches relentlessly skyrocket, so, too, does the amount of dangerous space debris that reenters the atmosphere and falls back to Earth, raising the odds that, sooner or ...

For most people, solving a problem is the reward—the relief of being done, the achievement of having figured it out.

In April 2024, a Chinese spacecraft broke apart in the skies over Southern California, creating a dramatic fireball and ...

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

Like something out of the Addams Family, scientists have created a detachable robotic hand that can crawl and grab objects.

A January 2026 Earth–Sun alignment allows measurements of the opposition surge from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS using ...