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

Scientists found a new way to track falling space debris using earthquake sensors, helping improve safety and response time.

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.

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

Now, scientists have devised a clever new way to predict where the pieces may land.

Space debris is becoming an overwhelming problem. With operators increasingly sending satellites and other ...

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As the number of satellites in orbit explodes, the amount of hardware eventually plunging back through the atmosphere is ...

When large satellites crash to Earth, we have so far been largely blind to their trajectory. This could change thanks to ...

This new method could provide real-time data on falling space debris, increasing safety and allowing authorities to take ...

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to ...

Wang Jie, Chen Dong and Chen Zhongrui before their April 2025 launch on the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft. This week the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced that the homecoming for three of its ...