It is essential to monitor the human-made space junk in orbit, as some of them pose a risk to the population if they fall ...

A growing space debris problem leads scientists to use seismic sensors to follow sonic booms from uncontrolled reentries ...

As the number of satellites in orbit explodes, the amount of hardware eventually plunging back through the atmosphere is ...

Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments ...

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

A large cloud of tiny fragments revolves around Earth following satellite explosions, rocket stage malfunctions, and anti-satellite missile testing. These fragments—some as small as grains of ...

A massive solar storm can trigger the low Earth orbit to collapse into Earth.

October is Space Month. At Duke University, space research is more than just science — it's a bold journey across disciplines. This is the fifth in a series of stories featuring innovators, dreamers, ...