Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to the ground. To locate possible crash sites, a Johns Hopkins University ...

Researchers and government agencies are turning to artificial intelligence to solve one of spaceflight’s fastest-growing problems: tracking debris in the vast stretch between Earth and the Moon. With ...

Seismometers — equipment designed to pinpoint earthquakes — are now being used to track the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth’s orbit. Some of those items pose a risk to ...

At least three large pieces of space debris — old satellites and spent rocket stages — fall back to Earth every day on average, but researchers have only a very limited understanding of where these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The GEO Polar images are generated from a vantage point above the north pole, showing the concentrations of satellites in LEO and ...

Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth’s orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to the ground. To locate possible crash sites, a Johns Hopkins University ...

A defunct Soviet satellite has shattered in orbit for the second time. Here is why experts are concerned about the growing ...

A "mishap report" that SpaceX submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration shows the company leaned on videos shot from Disney and Royal Caribbean cruise ships, a Club Med resort, and even ...

As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can better track incoming objects by tuning into their sonic booms. Scientists reported Thursday that seismic ...

It’s one extraordinary thing to launch the product of mankind’s brilliant minds into the cosmos, but it’s another to keep track of it long after the mission ends. We’ve explored before how important ...

The satellites that run your weather forecasts, your television, and a significant portion of global communications all occupy a narrow band of space 36,000 kilometers above the equator. They share ...