A decommissioned Chinese satellite re-entered the Earth's atmosphere late Saturday night, producing a fireball over portions of the Southern United States, including over Memphis. Astronomers say ...

NASA expects the decommissioned Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager spacecraft to re-enter Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday after 21 years in orbit.

Between 200 and 400 tracked objects —called space debris— enter Earth's atmosphere every year, the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service reported in 2018.

"This was a Russian satellite that was moving at about 17,000 miles per hour as it was re-entering Earth's atmosphere," said Sabrina Jauernit with the National Weather Service Gaylord.

A satellite made an uncontrolled return to Earth Wednesday, re-entering the atmosphere over the north Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Hawaii, according to the the European Space Agency.. The ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A decommissioned Chinese satellite re-entered the Earth's atmosphere late Saturday night, producing a fireball over portions of the Southern United States, including over ...

Friday night or Saturday morning, a 53-year-old Soviet spacecraft is due to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere. As I explained in my May “What’s Up In The Sky” feature, the heat-resistant Soviet ...

The European Space Agency predicted that ERS-2, a defunct satellite, will return to Earth. The satellite is likely to re-enter Earth's atmosphere Wednesday.

A large science satellite that mapped Earth's gravity likely re-entered the atmosphere where most of it incinerated on Sunday, about three weeks after running out of fuel and beginning to lose ...

Most of the derelict satellite is expected to burn up in our atmosphere, but the agency estimates that up to a half-ton of debris could make it to Earth’s surface, in chunks weighing up to 150kg ...