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

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

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

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.

Space debris might sound like something from science fiction, but it's becoming a daily reality for our planet. Every hour of every day, chunks of old satellites and rocket parts plummet through our ...

Three Chinese astronauts were due to depart the Tiangong space station, reenter the atmosphere, and land in the remote desert of Inner Mongolia on Wednesday. Instead, officials ordered the crew to ...

Space debris is a growing problem, and not just in Earth orbit. Once a week, on average, a spacecraft (or part of one) falls back into Earth's atmosphere; most of these objects are empty rocket stages ...

Researchers in Japan may have found a way to tackle one of space exploration's most pressing problems — orbital debris. The neat part is that they won't even need to physically touch it. Engineers at ...