On Aug. 8, 1977, the Salyut 5 space station fell out of space and burned up in Earth's atmosphere. Salyut 5 was a Soviet ...

Scientists have developed an algorithm called Astroclimes, which transforms stargazing instruments into climate sensors that ...

"Our distributed architecture solves a key challenge in orbital debris removal by enabling the deorbit and reentry of ...

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Crew 10 is the first NASA-sponsored crew that will land in the Pacific Ocean. All previous NASA Crew Dragon flights ended ...

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, currently aboard the International Space Station, captured footage of a meteor burning up in Earth atmosphere.

Astronaut Jim Lovell, who guided the Apollo 13 mission safely back to Earth in 1970, has died aged 97. Nasa said he "turned a ...

This image of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, taken from the International Space Station, shows the different layers of Earth's atmosphere, which have been labelled to more easily tell them apart.

You won’t notice the sunrise arrive 1.33 milliseconds sooner, but to precision atomic clocks, it will be obvious ...

China's Tiangong-1 space station re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and burned up over the middle of the South Pacific on Monday, the Chinese space authority said.

The feature sprawled across 1,000 km in Earth's upper atmosphere in the summer of 2014, and lasted for around eight hours. Earth’s hurricanes are impressive on their own, but they pale in ...