A network of Cold War-era infrasound sensors can help scientists reconstruct trajectories of falling space objects.

Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high ...

When 3 meteorite pieces struck Khalwat Nimgaon, it upended village life and set off a frantic hunt for a missing fragment.

Jonathan McDowell warns that if the heat shield does not break, the capsule could turn into a dangerous, uncontrollable metal ...

while about 50 tons per year of meteorites crash land somewhere on the surface. Since the 1960s, space junk has also occasionally returned to Earth, falling from a hazy sphere of trash encircling ...

Water did not come to Earth from asteroids – it was already here, a new study by the University of Oxford has suggested. Many ...

A half-tonne Soviet space probe designed to endure landing on Venus will tumble back to the Earth in two weeks and may “crash ...

With Kosmos 482's reentry to Earth set for this week, this isn't the first time a Soviet spacecraft has uncontrollably ...

The probe will start falling back to the Earth in a fiery descent around 10 ... who tracks spy satellites, meteorites, and asteroids, said. When and where the tumbling probe may crash down remains ...