A Varda Space Industries’ spacecraft, W-1, recently plummeted to Earth. Here's dramatic footage the capsule filmed as it sped through our planet's atmosphere at Mach 25, which is about 25 times ...

Nearly a quarter century ago, four identical spacecraft launched into space.Now, they're coming home. The European Space Agency sent a plane to capture footage of the first of four Cluster mission ...

Matthew Dominick spotted a huge green explosion of light in Earth's atmosphere while aboard the International Space Station this week. At the time, the ISS was flying over northern Africa.

Up at the edge of space, ionized particles stream out of Earth's atmosphere to be forever lost to the solar system. Some of this flow is simply due to sunlight heating up the thin air at that ...

Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, Valentina Tereshkova, Katy Perry, William Shatner – name any astronaut, cosmonaut, or space tourist you like, and none of them have left the Earth's atmosphere ...

Astronauts on the space station are often treated spectacular aurora displays, caused by solar particles hitting Earth’s atmosphere. Here’s a video of one that Pettit shared earlier this month.

To stop them from becoming space junk, satellite operators send spacecraft to burn up in the atmosphere at mission’s end. The environmental impacts are still uncertain. Early on a Sunday morning ...

NASA confirmed a meteor entered Earth's atmosphere over Georgia, disintegrating with energy equivalent to 20 tons of TNT.

Why is space debris a problem? There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states ...