Northrop Grumman's 'Cygnus XL' spacecraft makes fiery return to Earth

Northrop Grumman's 'Cygnus XL' cargo spacecraft undocked from the ISS and will make a fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere.

NASA’s 1,300-pound Van Allen Probe A blazes back to Earth after 14 years in space

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

Cargo spacecraft to crash through Earth's atmosphere, burn up

A cargo resupply spacecraft is on its way back to Earth from the International Space Station, where it will make a fiery reentry Saturday, March 14.
Smithsonian Institution

National Air and Space Museum Welcomes James Webb Space Telescope’s Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe to Collection

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum welcomes two new acquisitions to the collection—the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe model. The Pathfinder is a ...

Safer space travel: Scientists create a cosmic ray simulator

Cosmic rays are one of the greatest challenges for space travel and pose a considerable risk to humans and materials. For the first time on European soil, an international research team in ...

NASA’s DART Impact Actually Changed an Asteroid System’s Orbit Around the Sun

NASA’s DART mission proved that a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid system in space, offering a real test of planetary defense ...
Interesting Engineering

Cereal-box-sized NASA spacecraft sends first UV images of planet-host stars

NASA has received the first images from a tiny spacecraft designed to study the stars that host distant planets. The mission, called the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, will track ...
CNET

A 1,300-Pound NASA Satellite Just Made a Fiery Return to Earth

All things that go up must eventually come down. NASA says that its Van Allen Probe A satellite has fallen precipitously back to Earth after a 14-year journey through space. The probe reentered the ...
Earth.com

NASA confirms its DART mission changed an asteroid’s orbit, offering hope for this planetary defense technique

NASA’s DART mission changed the Dimorphos' asteroid orbit around the Sun, proving spacecraft impacts could help defend Earth.
Science Daily

Our Sun may have escaped the Milky Way’s center with thousands of twin stars

Scientists have uncovered evidence that our Sun may have traveled across the Milky Way as part of a massive migration of Sun-like stars billions of years ago. The journey may have carried the solar ...

NASA's tiny spacecraft sends first exoplanet images

With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA's Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is ready to begin charting the energetic lives of the galaxy's most ...
FOX Weather

NASA's 1,300-pound Van Allen Probe A blazes back to Earth, splashes down in Pacific after 14 years in orbit

Weighing just over 1,300 pounds, the satellite blazed through Earth's atmosphere and splashed down in the eastern Pacific Ocean, south of Mexico and west of Ecuador, at 6:37 a.m. EDT March 11.