A congressional watchdog is warning that the Pentagon’s ambitious effort to overhaul missile warning and tracking from space is moving faster than its underlying technology and management practices ...

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

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

Falling satellites and large orbital debris create massive sonic booms and scientists are using them to track dangerous space junk.

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.

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

This article is republished from Eos.org under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. On April 2, 2024, a shower of fireballs lit up the night sky over Los Angeles and much of ...

As of August 2024, there were reportedly more than 700 unidentified objects in the Space-Track catalogue maintained by the 18th Space Defense Squadron. These are not alien spacecraft or mysterious ...

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