The European satellite Salsa is due to reenter our atmosphere at 7.48pm UK time, where it will burn up, leaving a fiery trail and giving rare clues about how we can reduce space debris in future.

A tiny grain from asteroid Ryugu has revealed djerfisherite, a mineral that normally forms in scorching, oxygen-poor settings ...

A fiery X2.7-class solar flare that erupted from sunspot AR4087 early Tuesday morning (May 14), sending charged particles and plasma hurtling toward Earth. And experts warn, this is just the ...

The ISS has been orbiting the Earth since construction on it began in 1998. It has hosted more than 250 visitors from 20 countries since its first crew arrived in November 2000. "The space station ...

A defunct, Soviet-era spacecraft is falling back to Earth uncontrolled, but experts say there’s little cause for alarm. ... with very few — if any — parts surviving the fiery journey.

Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s ...

Earth’s fiery ‘Door to Hell’ is starting to close. The Darvaza gas crater in Turkmenistan has been burning since 1971. By Andrew Paul. Published Jun 9, 2025 2:35 PM EDT.

A belt of volcanic rock along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada’s Quebec province has been confirmed as the oldest ...