Thanks to its airplane-shaped folding, the paper plane is statically stable in the vacuum-like upper reaches of space. It ...

Watch how the atmospheric re-entry of one of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy's fairings, reported to be traveling at more than 15 times ...

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The entry of space debris into Earth’s atmosphere often occurs in its most remote and unmonitored areas. Tracking these events has always been a challenge. Surprisingly, scientists are now ...

Meteoroid atmospheric entry is a multifaceted phenomenon wherein small celestial objects, upon encountering Earth’s atmosphere at high velocities, experience rapid heating that leads to ablation ...

NASA predicts the decaying probe could reenter Earth's atmosphere anytime between Wednesday, May 7, and Tuesday, May 13. However, the spacecraft is most likely to begin its descent Saturday, May 10.

But if the Cosmos 482 object is indeed a Soviet reentry capsule, it would be equipped with a substantial heat shield, meaning it “might well survive Earth atmosphere entry and hit the ground ...