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

Space agencies have long worried about what happens when old satellites and rocket parts fall back through the atmosphere, ...

By mapping areas where seismometers in southern California detected sonic booms, researchers at Johns Hopkins University and ...

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

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

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

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

What: A forward-looking SETI Live discussion examining the most significant space science missions, discoveries, and ...

Space technology on Earth has gone from futuristic to foundational in our everyday lives. From satellite innovations that enable global communication to space science applications improving ...

When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030, its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it remains an open question as to whether its successes matched humanity's ...