CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can better track incoming objects by tuning into their sonic booms.

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 the ground. To locate possible crash sites, a Johns Hopkins University ...

Firefly made history with its Blue Ghost Mission 1, the first fully successful commercial Moon landing in March 2025. The Blue Ghost lunar lander touched down upright and stable on the Moon's surface ...

As of August 2024, there were reportedly more than 700 unidentified objects in the Space-Track catalogue maintained by the 18th Space Defense Squadron. These are not alien spacecraft or mysterious ...