On April 2, 2024, the night sky over Southern California tore open. A streak of fire ripped through the atmosphere, traveling northeast over Santa Barbara and Las Vegas at speeds that make fighter ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Space junk falling out of orbit can be a threat -- now scientists say they have found a new way to track it as it speeds through ...

A Russian anti-satellite missile test destroyed the defunct COSMOS 1408 satellite, generating more than 1,500 pieces of ...

Scientists created a large open database that uses light patterns to help satellites detect plastic in oceans more accurately from space.

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

The European Space Agency is designing a ground-based laser system called Omlet to nudge space debris away from satellites.

SpaceX's Starlink communications satellite constellation is doing double duty as the company announces that it's moonlighting as the Stargaze Space Situational Awareness system that can track and ...