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

Earthquake sensors are giving scientists a new way to track space junk as it falls back to Earth.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can better ...

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

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

Networks of seismometers pick up on vibrations of debris to map their trajectory on Earth.

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

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

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

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

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

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