More than 120 seismometers detected sonic booms from space debris and enabled its fall to be tracked with unprecedented ...

Earth’s orbit is starting to look less like pristine space and more like a crowded ring road, packed with active satellites and the dead hardware they leave behind. As of early January, there were ...

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

China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there's nothing routine about its journey home. The ...

With increased orbital traffic, accurately identifying space debris has become a pressing challenge - a challenge that one ...

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

Discover how space debris tracking technology, automated satellite collision avoidance systems, and active debris removal missions prevent Kessler syndrome and protect orbiting spacecraft.

Proof-of-principle experiment resolved the shock waves produced by the Shenzhou-15 module when it re-entered the atmosphere ...

Low Earth orbit is starting to look less like pristine wilderness and more like a crowded shipping lane, with thousands of ...

Dear EarthTalk: What is space debris, and can we reduce or eliminate it? – H.B., Troy, NY ...

(Gray News) – The risk of space debris falling through airspace is going up in 2026, according to researchers. Experts said spacecraft, or parts of one, fall back into the Earth’s atmosphere once a ...

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