On March 7, 1962, NASA launched the first Orbiting Solar Observatory. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...

Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo, once the center of a booming oil industry, is now severely polluted and facing irreversible ...

The US military is using AI tools during Iran war. But Pentagon’s collaboration with tech companies goes back decades.

As Artemis II prepares to carry astronauts around the moon using flight computers capable of billions of calculations per second … software that adjusts a spacecraft’s ...

The Cape Canaveral site is where John Glenn launched to orbit. Now it will host Stoke Space's Nova rocket; an effort toward ...

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

The Van Allen probe's mission was meant to last two years, but ended up going for nearly seven.

A long-retired NASA satellite has finally returned to Earth, burning through the atmosphere before falling into the Pacific.

The satellite, launched 14 years ago, will make an uncontrolled re-entry Tuesday evening. NASA puts the risk of harm to anyone on Earth at "approximately 1 in 4,200." ...

This reentry is notable because it poses a higher risk to the public than the US government typically allows. The risk of harm coming to anyone on Earth is still low, approximately 1 in 4,200, but it ...

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 ...