As space debris reenters Earth's atmosphere, it travels several times faster than the speed of sound, creating a trail of ...

The huge 1,600-mile (2,500-kilometer) wide expanse of the South Pole–Aitken Basin extends considerably onto the far side of ...

Two scientists have developed an innovative technique that analyzes data collected by terrestrial seismic sensors to monitor ...

Solar Orbiter captured the most detailed view of a solar flare, observing the build-up of events that lead to the explosion.

Networks created to measure quakes deep underground could also track old, potentially dangerous satellites burning up in the ...

Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their ...

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

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

By mapping areas where seismometers in southern California detected sonic booms, researchers at Johns Hopkins University and ...

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

Using this method to track uncontrolled objects plummeting at supersonic speeds, they said, could help recovery teams reach ...