Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentation event months after ...

A Russian signals intelligence satellite was destroyed in a collision with space debris, according to Swiss firm S2A Systems.

The United States remains “unacceptably vulnerable” to a dangerous form of escalation by Russia in space, including the possibility of a nuclear detonation that could cripple satellites and disrupt ...

For decades, Russian rocket launches have scattered thousands of tons of debris across remote regions, turning entire landscapes into unofficial space graveyards. This is the hidden story of the ...

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

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

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

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