Re-entering Earth’s atmosphere is one of the most dangerous phases of any space mission. This video explains how spacecraft ...

Police said the object appeared to be "a composite-overwrapped pressure vessel or rocket tank" consistent with "aerospace ...

On Saturday, a huge chunk of what is almost certainly space junk was found lying in the middle of a desert road in Western ...

Daily life increasingly depends on systems of satellites orbiting Earth. As fleets proliferate, ever greater numbers of expired units will hurtle back toward the surface. Decommissioned satellites ...

HEO’s satellite-to-satellite imaging uncovers secrets of Chinese tech-test spacecraft Australian company HEO has imaged and modeled a mystery Chinese satellite prior to its reentry into Earth’s ...

Experts believe that a five-foot-wide piece of space debris discovered near an Australian mining town was part of a dead ...

Use cases for smart materials in space exploration keep cropping up everywhere. They are used in everything from antenna ...

The final hours of the 53-year, errant flight of the Soviet Union’s Cosmos 482 space probe are upon us. US Department of Defense data predicts that the rugged, half-ton spacecraft once bound for Venus ...

Fuel leaks on the upper-stage vehicle caused it to spin uncontrollably before its planned re-entry through Earth's atmosphere, ending with a "rapid unscheduled disassembly." SpaceX launched Starship ...

A Soviet spacecraft launched a half-century ago called Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades and is at last expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere this coming weekend. The rogue probe is ...

Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades. It's still unknown if the craft will fall to Earth intact or burn up upon atmospheric reentry. A Soviet spacecraft launched a half-century ago ...