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Old NASA science satellite plunges back to Earth

An old NASA science satellite plunged uncontrolled from orbit and reentered over the Pacific on Wednesday.

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A NASA spacecraft is set to make an uncontrolled plunge back to Earth. Here are the risks

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Nasa spacecraft weighing 1,300lb due to re-enter Earth's atmosphere

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NASA’s 1,300-pound Van Allen Probe A to blaze through atmosphere, plummet to Earth's surface within hours

Weighing just over 1,300 pounds, Nasa ’s Van Allen Probe A is hurtling toward Earth, with its fiery re-entry set to slam into the atmosphere later tonight.

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NASA spacecraft to reenter uncontrolled, but human risk remains minimal

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A 1300-pound NASA satellite is falling to Earth today

NASA, DART and asteroid Dimorphos

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NASA DART mission reveals asteroids throw “cosmic snowballs” at each other

Roughly 15% of asteroids that pass near Earth have a smaller companion orbiting them.

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NASA’s DART spacecraft changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun

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NASA's DART mission didn't just change the orbit of asteroid it hit

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Lower-cost space missions like NASA’s ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science – but at a price in risk and trade‑offs

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun its roundabout journey to Mars. Launched on Nov. 13, 2025, aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket,

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NASA’s Mars rover found a clue that could reshape Mars science

What turns an oddly patterned Martian rock into one of the most watched clues in planetary science? For NASA’s Perseverance rover, the answer lies in a place chosen for its ancient promise. Jezero Crater was selected because orbital views had already revealed channels and a fan-shaped delta,

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NASA space probe expected to reenter 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

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NASA disqualifies X-ray telescope from Probe mission competition

NASA has disqualified one of the two proposals for a large astrophysics mission, a decision the project’s leader blames on upheaval within NASA last year.

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New crew arrivals and science highlight February aboard...

Following the early departure of Crew-11 in mid-January due to a medical concern, the International Space Station began February with a crew of just three. Two cosmonauts, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev,

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NASA to provide satellite data for fisheries research in new partnership

Under a new partnership with the Science Center for Marine Fisheries (SCEMFIS), NASA will provide new advanced satellite data to support fisheries and marine science research. As part of the partnership,

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NASA has 36 projects you can help with right now

NASA is inviting the public to join 36 citizen science projects. Volunteers can help with discoveries from asteroids to Martian clouds. To join, email do-nasa-science-join@lists.nasa.gov with "Subscribe." NASA is allowing everyday citizens to take part in ...

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NASA unveils dazzling new images of the ‘Cat’s Eye Nebula’

The space-based telescopes Hubble and Euclid combined forces to capture the vibrant remains of a dying star in stunning new detail

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NASA studying unidentified aerial phenomena aka UFOs

NASA conducts studies of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, explains. Credit: Space.com | Animations provided by NASA/ESO/ M.