NASA’s Van Allen Probe A, a 1,300-pound satellite that spent more than a decade studying Earth’s radiation belts, fell back through the atmosphere on March 11, 2026, according to the agency. The ...

Scientists discover binary asteroids near Earth can trade rocks and dust through slow collisions, revealing clues about asteroid evolution.

A television at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, captures the final images from the Double Asteroid ...

SpaceX opposed the agency's proposed rules, which would have required the safe removal of rocket parts from orbit.

Astronomers have collected evidence of a violent collision between two planets in a distant star system. The first clues of this cataclysmic event came when a rather boring star began behaving very ...

How a team of divers accidentally uncovered debris from the tragic 1986 shuttle explosion resting on Florida’s ocean floor.

Earth is surrounded by millions of pieces of space junk — remnants of old satellites, rocket stages, and collisions. Traveling at tens of thousands of kilometers per hour, even a tiny fragment can ...

The agency once said that pieces of space debris “pose a significant risk,” but the Trump administration has backed off a ...

Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary sun-like star suddenly began flickering wildly, puzzling scientists until they ...

Plans are afoot to launch large mega-constellations of AI data centers into Earth orbit. That ambition, pursued by multiple space industry leaders, coincides with a warning from scientists of ...

A massive space probe could plummet into Earth’s atmosphere as soon as Tuesday evening — years earlier than expected. And ...

Currently, one of those now-defunct spacecraft might be plummeting toward the planet’s surface. Days ago, the U.S. Space ...