The sun emits solar winds which can jam our power grids, satellites radios and more. The new TRACERS project wants to learn how to protect us from those winds.

Satellites circling Earth have many different functions, including navigation, communications and Earth observation. About 8% ...

Space junk is a huge problem. The surge in satellite launches in recent years is leaving low Earth orbit (LEO) cluttered with debris such as discarded rocket bodies, broken parts and defunct ...

Israel Aerospace Industries has launched 'Dror 1,' the nation's communications satellite, via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Now orbiting at 36,000 km above Earth, the satellite will bolster Israel's ...

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

The Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) satellite, which is hosting the instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission, has been placed inside the nose cone of the Falcon 9 launch rocket and ...

Crucial research into the effects of rocket and satellite air pollution on Earth's atmosphere is reportedly being cut as part of Donald Trump administration's cuts to climate science budgets.

We're less than a week from a former Soviet Union spacecraft re-entering Earth's atmosphere, but there's a problem: nobody knows where it's going to land – and it looks like it's going to land ...

An illustration of a satellite crashing into the ocean after an uncontrolled reentry through Earth's atmosphere. A similar fate is expected to await the Soviet Kosmos 482 probe, which could fall ...

The time part or all of the dead probe is expected to impact Earth continues to narrow in on Friday overnight into Saturday morning.

A Soviet spacecraft, stranded in Earth’s orbit for 53 years after a failed interplanetary mission, is set to re-enter the atmosphere this week. Its return also revives memories of a darker chapter in ...

However, the rest of the 53-year-old satellite is estimated to return imminently. When and where could Kosmos 482 hit Earth? Kosmos 482 is expected to enter our planet's atmosphere sometime between ...