Earthquake sensors can detect sonic booms generated by reentering space debris to help track the potentially dangerous ...

Scientists are now tracking falling satellites by listening to Earth's vibrations. Powerful shockwaves from re-entering space ...

Europe’s Copernicus program has secured funding for six new satellite missions aimed at tracking vital environmental parameters. This commitment will significantly boost global efforts to monitor ...

The following is the Government Accountability Office’s report, published Jan. 28, 2026, and revised Feb. 2, 2026, Missile ...

WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency announced Dec. 19 it awarded about $3.5 billion in contracts to four companies to build 72 missile-tracking satellites for the next phase of a low Earth orbit ...

We’ve been receiving calls into the WTOP Newsroom reporting phenomena in the skies that people can’t explain — but our space expert can. Night time sky gazers can see meteors — bright and dim, ...

AMERICAN GENERALS once spoke in euphemisms about the possibility of fighting a war in space, preferring to talk about space “dominance” rather than the grim prospect of shattering satellites in orbit.