Before they get out of their space suits, they’ll endure an intense reentry phase where "if you look out the spacecraft's window, the only view would be a wall of fire".

A spacecraft's sample return capsule was detected entering the Earth's atmosphere using acoustic sensors by a team of scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Colorado State University.

So, the cheers to celebrate Sunita Williams' homecoming came only after the spacecraft turned a ball of fire entering the atmosphere and heading for a splash in the ocean. Docked at the ...

Operators follow a 25-year rule: at this point, a satellite’s mission is deemed to have ended and it is lowered into the atmosphere where gravity and friction kicks in. While this helps clear space, ...

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

By Alimat Aliyeva SpaceX's massive Starship spacecraft exploded in space on Thursday, just minutes after liftoff from T ...

A four-member crew, including NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore, left the ISS early Tuesday on ...

Former NASA astronaut Jose Hernandez commemorated the return of the astronauts who were stranded at the International Space ...

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, the two National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) astronauts who went to the ...

The pair of NASA astronauts who have been in space for over nine months returned to Earth on Tuesday after a new crew to replace them reached the ISS over the weekend.