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.

Now, scientists have devised a clever new way to predict where the pieces may land.

Space agencies have long struggled to predict where large chunks of space hardware will come down, often with error bars that ...

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

A way of accurately tracking potentially deadly space junk as it falls to Earth has been devised. Seismometers usually used ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can ...

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

A growing space debris problem leads scientists to use seismic sensors to follow sonic booms from uncontrolled reentries ...

Look in the night sky, and you’ll see planets, stars, maybe even a satellite. But what you don’t see are all the other objects floating around Earth -- also known as space junk. “Space debris put ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

October is Space Month. At Duke University, space research is more than just science — it's a bold journey across disciplines. This is the fifth in a series of stories featuring innovators, dreamers, ...