A meteorite streaked across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday, raining fireballs over a vast area and causing a shock wave that smashed windows, damaged buildings and injure... Read more
A young spaceflight company is building what it hopes will be the ultimate space handyman, a combination repair droid and orbital gas station to serve ailing satellites around Earth. The com... Read more
The sun emitted a mid-level flare, peaking at 4:55 PM EDT on July 28, 2012. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s at... Read more
The tumbling German satellite Rosat re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the Bay of Bengal, the German space agency (DLR) has confirmed. This means any satellite components that surv... Read more
A new study has looked at accurately measuring each nation’s contribution of carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere. And the research found 10 countries account for 67% of gl... Read more
A dead 5.4-ton Nasa satellite is expected to fall back to Earth on Friday – although officials cannot say exactly where it will hit. The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) coul... Read more
