A suspected meteor spotted in the night sky over Southern California and Nevada was identified as the remains of a Starlink ...

An out-of-control NASA satellite that is dead in space will plunge back to Earth in the next few weeks, but exactly when and where the spacecraft will fall are still a mystery, space agency and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: ESA/David Ducross On Sept. 8, 2024, a satellite named Salsa will re-enter the atmosphere ...

Earlier this month Jesse Ramazami was out for a midnight walk near his home in Manor when he noticed something strange moving across the sky. It appeared to be on fire, leaving a trail of smoke in its ...

A huge German satellite destined to tumble from space could plunge to Earth today (Oct. 22), but it is still too soon for agency officials to know precisely where the doomed spacecraft could fall. "Re ...

Swift, launched in 2004 and parked in low-Earth orbit at around 585 km above the planet, is gradually losing altitude due to atmospheric drag.

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 ...

We're less than a week from a former Soviet Union spacecraft re-entering Earth's atmosphere, but there's a problem: nobody knows where it's going to land – and it looks like it's going to land, rather ...

 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A 6-ton NASA satellite on a collision course with Earth clung to space Friday, apparently flipping position in its ever-lower orbit and stalling its death ...

On Sept. 8, 2024, a satellite named Salsa will re-enter the atmosphere and burn up safely over a hand-picked region of the South Pacific — if all goes to plan. When you purchase through links on our ...