All of these new developments don’t mean that the sun is ready to give up its fusion monopoly, as many significant ...

As space debris reenters Earth's atmosphere, it travels several times faster than the speed of sound, creating a trail of ...

A growing space debris problem leads scientists to use seismic sensors to follow sonic booms from uncontrolled reentries ...

Los Alamos scientists have developed a novel method using shockwaves from sonic booms to track objects entering Earth's ...

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

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.

As global numbers of space launches relentlessly skyrocket, so, too, does the amount of dangerous space debris that reenters ...

Damaged Shenzhou-20 spacecraft survives reentry, Shenzhou-23 arrives at spaceport China’s damaged Shenzhou-20 spacecraft ...

Networks created to measure quakes deep underground could also track old, potentially dangerous satellites burning up in the ...

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 sensors used to listen for earthquakes could help protect people from the hazards created by falling spacecraft.

Space junk falling out of orbit and crashing toward Earth is a growing threat. Indeed, old satellites and spacecraft parts ...