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

A spacecraft built to study one of Earth’s most hostile regions ended its mission with a return through the atmosphere years earlier than expected. Van Allen Probe A, a NASA satellite weighing about 1,

NASA’s defunct Van Allen Probe A burned up over the eastern Pacific Ocean on March 11, 2026, splashing down west of the Galapagos Islands years ahead of schedule. The 1,323-pound spacecraft, which spent seven years mapping Earth’s radiation belts,

NASA’s 1,323-pound Van Allen Probe A is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere nearly 14 years after its launch.

China has launched a space probe that will travel to an asteroid near Mars to collect samples and find potential "groundbreaking" results. The Tianwen-2 probe launched Thursday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province ...

SpaceX launched twin satellites for NASA Wednesday that will study how the electrically-charged solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field, creating constantly changing and occasionally dangerous "space weather" affecting satellites, electrical grids ...

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, the ESA said. Deimos is ...

An astronomer has explained why a 1,300 pound NASA space probe has probably already fallen to Earth, and we've likely missed it. Earlier this week, the US space agency announced one of its Van Allen probes would be crashing back down to our planet eight years early.