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.

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.

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

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

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The Saudi Space Agency announced on Tuesday the names of the winning teams of the global “DebriSolver” competition, one of ...

This Collection features original research on space debris, highlighting studies in detection, mitigation, and managing which aim to contribute to the global effort to safeguard our space environment.

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 lost ...

After decades of space exploration, there are now more than 500,000 pieces of artificial debris greater than half an inch in size. Courtesy of NASA Orbital Debris Program Office Earler this month, ...