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 ...

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 ...

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

As the threat of falling spacecraft increases, using earthquake sensors to detect the effects of their sonic booms could ...

A computer generated image of objects in Earth orbit that are currently being tracked. Approximately 95% of the objects in this illustration are orbital debris, i.e., not functional satellites. The ...

Asharq Al Awsat The second edition of the Space Debris 2026 Conference officially commenced today. Organized by the Saudi Space Agency (SSA), the conference is witnessing broad international ...