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A massive hidden rupture beneath the Himalayas is tearing the Earth apart, leaving scientists deeply concerned.

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Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to the ground. To locate possible crash sites, a Johns Hopkins University ...

As part of the Chinese spacecraft Shenzhou-15 tumbled back to Earth, its disintegration was tracked by a surprising source: seismometers. Seismic networks in southern California picked up ground ...

A photo of IceCube members, carpenters, and seismologists from Stoney Brook and USGS right before flight to the South Pole from McMurdo Station. This winter, U.S. Geological Survey scientists are ...

The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network has set up six seismometers around Lumen Field to see if the 12's can get the ground shaking during this weekend's playoff game Greenland's only US military base ...

Historically, corporate boardrooms have been mostly white and mostly male. Yet the trend started shifting in the 1970s, in ...

A new study shows how earthquake monitors can better track space junk by tuning into their sonic booms CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how ...

Falling satellites and large orbital debris create massive sonic booms and scientists are using them to track dangerous space junk.

If space debris does not completely burn up in the atmosphere during a crash to Earth, seismometers installed for earthquake research could help to find crash sites much faster in the future than has ...