A cargo resupply spacecraft is on its way back to Earth from the International Space Station, where it will make a fiery reentry Saturday, March 14.

The Van Allen probe's mission was meant to last two years, but ended up going for nearly seven.

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

Rocket launches and satellite reentries are depositing metals and soot directly into Earth’s stratosphere, and a growing body of peer-reviewed research warns that these pollutants are altering the ...

Satellites and rocket stages burning up on reentry are now depositing more aluminum into Earth’s upper atmosphere than natural meteoroids, crossing a threshold that atmospheric scientists have warned ...

A 1,300-pound NASA satellite is set to reenter Earth’s atmosphere Tuesday evening after more than a decade in orbit, according to projections from the agency and U.S. Space Force. The spacecraft, Van ...

Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a new study has found. Published today in the journal Communications Earth ...

The study highlights how letting rocket debris burn up in the atmosphere is not a consequence-free approach to orbital cleanup.

Burning satellites may release alumina, soot and metals that affect Earth’s atmosphere and may damage the ozone layer.

A plume of upper-atmospheric lithium pollution observed in February 2025 has been attributed to the re-entry of a specific rocket stage. The results, published in Communications Earth & Environment, ...