An old NASA science satellite is no more. The U.S. Space Force says the Van Allen Probe A plunged uncontrolled from orbit on Wednesday, reentering over the Pacific west of the Galapagos Islands.

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System Delta 84, working with BAE Systems Space and Mission Systems, achieved the milestone nine months after the contract award.

China's asteroid sampling spacecraft, Tianwen 2, has been on its interplanetary journey for more than four months, and while it has traveled over 43 million kilometers, its mission is far from ...

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

A NASA satellite that spent more than a decade coursing through the Van Allen radiation belts encircling Earth is about to fall back into the atmosphere. Most of the spacecraft will burn up during ...

The Van Allen probe, which studied how the Earth is protected from harmful space radiation, could fall to Earth tonight. Here’s what to know ...

NASA's Van Allen Probe A is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere almost 14 years after launch. From 2012 to 2019, the spacecraft and its twin, Van Allen Probe B, flew through the Van Allen belts, ...

Chinese official calls for prioritizing Neptune orbiter mission A senior Chinese space scientist and delegate to the country’s national congress is proposing the prioritization of an unprecedented ...

New images of Uranus show the planet in blue, the upper atmosphere in red, auroras in lighter red spots and rings in white. ESA / Webb, NASA, CSA, STScI, P. Tiranti, H. Melin, M. Zamani (ESA / Webb) ...

Starship’s heavy lift capacity, in orbit refueling, and potential aerobraking role could significantly accelerate a long-awaited mission to Uranus.

Artemis II has been plagued by similar issues to those faced by its predecessor, leading NASA to shake up its plan to return ...