Defunct NASA satellite to crash back to Earth, with a small risk of falling debris

The satellite, launched 14 years ago, will make an uncontrolled re-entry Tuesday evening. NASA estimates the risk of harm to anyone on Earth to be "approximately 1 in 4,200." ...
Ars Technica

NASA approved a safety waiver for this week’s reentry of Van Allen Probe

A NASA satellite that spent more than a decade coursing through the Van Allen radiation belts encircling Earth is about to fall back into the atmosphere. Most of the spacecraft will burn up during ...
Scientific American

NASA space probe expected to re-enter the atmosphere with a chance of raining debris

The Van Allen probe, which studied how the Earth is protected from harmful space radiation, could fall to Earth tonight. Here’s what to know ...

NASA fixes Artemis II rocket for April launch to take astronauts around moon

NASA's Artemis II is on track to shoot for the moon in April after engineers fixed the helium issue that grounded the mission ...

NASA and SpaceX disagree about manual controls for lunar lander

NASA’s inspector general released a new report on Tuesday that examines the space agency’s management of the Human Landing System development contracts signed with SpaceX and Blue Origin. These ...
Green Matters

Can We Stop a ‘Planet Killer’ Asteroid from Hitting Earth? A NASA Experiment Tested It

A new study shows NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART mission subtly changed an asteroid system’s orbit around the Sun.

NASA Issues Major Update on 2032 Path of 'City Killer' Asteroid

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is big and dangerous enough that it has been dubbed a "city killer." There were concerns that the asteroid ...

NASA’s ‘Moonbound’ is worth a watch as you wait for Artemis II update

NASA had been hoping to launch four astronauts on a voyage around the moon in the Artemis II mission in February, but technical issues with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket forced the space agency ...