ESA's ERS-2 satellite has been captured by HEO Robotics cameras in space ahead of Earth re-entry. See an animation of the ERS ...

In 2025, around 120 SpaceX Starlink satellites re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and burnt up upon descent. These artificial meteor showers, visible across the globe, have raised concerns about their ...

Elon Musk’s satellite network is expected to balloon in size over the next decade. Should we be concerned? (Hint: Many experts already are.) ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A bright, slow-moving fireball streaked across the southern sky Saturday night shortly after 10 p.m. CST. This fireball left onlookers amazed and confused as to what it was.

Daily life increasingly depends on systems of satellites orbiting Earth. As fleets proliferate, ever greater numbers of expired units will hurtle back toward the surface. Decommissioned satellites ...

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) – Many Arkansans had their eyes glued to the sky as streaks from the result of a Chinese satellite’s reentry appeared late Saturday night. K8 News received several pictures and ...

It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, right up there with robot athletes or custom-printed organs. A dead NASA climate satellite, which has been circling the earth for 20 years, will plummet ...

Kosmos 482 performed an uncontrolled reentry on May 10, possibly crashing into the Indian Ocean. The spacecraft’s expected area of reentry spans vast regions on both sides of the equator, where it ...

The final hours of the 53-year, errant flight of the Soviet Union’s Cosmos 482 space probe are upon us. US Department of Defense data predicts that the rugged, half-ton spacecraft once bound for Venus ...

Flynn Nicholls is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. His focus is reporting on U.S. politics and society. Originally from New Zealand, Flynn joined Newsweek in 2024 and had previously worked at ...

The space and telecom industries can look increasingly intertwined as satellite roaming—today for messages, tomorrow for data ...

A fiery streak of space debris lit up the Northern California sky Thursday night, drawing hundreds of reports from residents across the Sacramento area, the Bay Area and beyond. The American Meteor ...