Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to ...

NASA’s InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, completing a major mission milestone. New images from the lander show the seismometer on the ground, its ...

Forecasting volcanic eruptions in time to alert authorities and populations remains a major global challenge. In a study ...

Every year, thousands of discarded artificial satellites are orbiting the planet, with an increasing number falling back into Earth’s atmosphere. Most of these objects will be destroyed before they ...

For the past several weeks, NASA’s InSight lander has been making adjustments to the seismometer it set on the Martian surface on Dec. 19. Now it’s reached another milestone by placing a domed shield ...

Seismometers over Los Angeles awakened on April 2, 2024, with unusual blips. An earthquake would have been a reasonable cause for the activity, but the signals didn’t appear along fault lines. The ...

A group of Rutgers University seismologists has installed more than 100 seismometers around North Jersey to gather data on ground vibrations and better understand the subsurface faults that likely ...

Seismometers — equipment designed to pinpoint earthquakes — are now being used to track the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth’s orbit. Some of those items pose a risk to ...