CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can better ...

On the contrary, large parts of the globe are quite densely dotted with seismic sensors designed to detect earthquakes, and ...

Plastic pollution is one of those problems everyone can see, yet few know how to tackle it effectively. I grew up walking the ...

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

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.

As the threat of falling spacecraft increases, using earthquake sensors to detect the effects of their sonic booms could ...

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