As more space junk is falling to Earth uncontrolled, scientists are using seismometers to track the debris.

A space physics expert has warned that debris falling from the sky could cause major damage and even kill people.

The space debris problem won't solve itself. We've been kicking the can down the road for years as we continue launching more rockets and payloads into space. In the last couple of years, ...

"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." ...

Christophe Bonnal, a French specialist in space debris, said the debris might have come from a military launcher. "They are armored, which fits with the fact that it is very big and heavy," he said.

While Elon Musk’s spaceflight company repeated a spectacular catch of its powerful booster stage, the upper stage experienced ...

The third Starship test flight last March saw the spacecraft reach its planned trajectory and fly halfway around the world ...

The object turned out to be space debris — junk left over from six decades of space exploration and a growing number of commercial launches, the Kenya Space Agency said Wednesday. It identified ...

Investigators think the object, which is roughly 8 feet (2.5 meters) in diameter and weighing some 1,100 pounds (500 kilograms), is actually a piece of space debris, rocket leftovers that came ...