Two scientists have developed an innovative technique that analyzes data collected by terrestrial seismic sensors to monitor the reentry of space debris fragments, a growing issue. They demonstrated ...

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 ground. To locate possible crash sites, a Johns Hopkins University ...

Seventy years ago, Earth had only one satellite: the moon. Now it has more than 15,000—about 10,000 of which are owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX. The world's first trillionaire plans to launch 1 million ...

Nearly half the manmade objects orbiting Earth are chunks of “uncontrollable” space junk — with just three countries fueling the problem and endangering future space travel, a shocking new study found ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Six metallic spheres found at Forrest Beach in Queensland, Australia, were likely space debris, the Australian Space Agency said. ...

Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...