A spacecraft plunged back into Earth’s atmosphere early Wednesday. While most of the probe was expected to burn up during ...

The satellite, launched 14 years ago, will make an uncontrolled re-entry Tuesday evening. NASA puts the risk of harm to ...

A long-retired NASA satellite has finally returned to Earth, burning through the atmosphere before falling into the Pacific.

This reentry is notable because it poses a higher risk to the public than the US government typically allows. The risk of ...

One of NASA’s spacecraft could reenter the atmosphere at approximately 7:45 P.M. EDT tonight. When the 600-kilogram Van Allen Probe A reenters Earth’s atmosphere, it will largely burn up, but there ...

Dots representing tracked bits of space junk encircle the planet. Most of these objects are concentrated in low Earth orbit — the region of space within 1,200 miles of the Earth's surface. - NASA ODPO ...

A piece of space debris that hit a home in Naples, Florida, in March was a piece of the International Space Station, according to NASA. NASA had expected the debris — old and depleted nickel hydride ...

NASA's Van Allen Probe A, a 600kg satellite, is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere on Tuesday evening, with minimal risk of ...

Three Chinese astronauts have been temporarily stranded in space after the vehicle they were meant to travel aboard back to Earth was hit by space debris. Just how much damage the vehicle sustained ...