Sprites are a type of TLE, which create brilliant flashes of light high above powerful thunderstorms and are difficult to ...

From their unique vantage point in orbit, astronauts have a clear, unobstructed view of these fleeting events—something ...

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.

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 ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

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 ...

The NASA Odyssey orbiter, which launched in 2001 from Cape Canaveral, snapped a 1st-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking ...

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 ...