The Van Allen probe's mission was meant to last two years, but ended up going for nearly seven.

NASA and the U.S. Space Force have been tracking a one in 4,200 chance that remnants from spacecraft can survive re-entry and harm someone on Earth. (NASA.gov photo) ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its 27th close approach to the Sun, reaching an unprecedented distance of 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. This milestone, achieved ...

A 1,300-pound NASA satellite is expected to crash through Earth's atmosphere March 10, 2026, with some of the spacecraft possibly surviving re-entry.

The satellite blazed through Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, March 11.

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 ...

Weighing just over 1,300 pounds, NASA’s Van Allen Probe A is hurtling toward Earth, its fiery re-entry set to slam into the ...

A 1,300 pound Nasa satellite was set to crash into Earth on Tuesday, March 10. Here's what to know about the crash, and if ...

Van Allen Probe A was originally designed for just a two-year mission ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has made valuable observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which in July became the ...

A far view of NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes launch into orbit atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 4:05 a.m. EDT on Aug. 30, 2012. A ...