CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can ...

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

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

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

A congressional watchdog is warning that the Pentagon’s ambitious effort to overhaul missile warning and tracking from space is moving faster than its underlying technology and management practices ...

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.

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 ...

In 2018, after decades of research and tens of millions in funding, Russian astronauts attached a wildlife-tracking receiver to the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS). The device ...

Don Pettit has a long history of inventing new tools for use in space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronauts are many things ...