Robin Wing of the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics is one of those scientists. In February of last year when the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket entered an uncontrolled descent sending ...

Space debris might sound like something from science fiction, but it's becoming a daily reality for our planet. Every hour of every day, chunks of old satellites and rocket parts plummet through our ...

Proof-of-principle experiment resolved the shock waves produced by the Shenzhou-15 module when it re-entered the atmosphere ...

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Thousands of expendable satellites are falling into the Earth's atmosphere and turning it into a polluted "crematorium." ...

On Saturday, a huge chunk of what is almost certainly space junk was found lying in the middle of a desert road in Western Australia, according to the Australian Space Agency. Its exact origins aren’t ...

More than 120 seismometers detected sonic booms from space debris and enabled its fall to be tracked with unprecedented ...

Researchers have discovered that the same sensors used to detect earthquakes are the key to tracking the growing swarm of space junk plummeting toward Earth. As the orbital highway becomes ...

High up in Earth's orbit, millions of human-made objects large and small are flying at speeds of over 15,000 miles per hour. The objects, which range from inactive satellites to fragments of equipment ...

You might not expect there to be much risk of collisions out in the infinite void of space, but at least within Earth's orbit, there's a veritable gravel pit of loose debris flying around at ...