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

The probe completed its 27th closest approach to the Sun this March.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its 27th close approach to the Sun, reaching an unprecedented distance of 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. This milestone, achieved ...

One of NASA’s spacecraft could reenter the atmosphere at approximately 7:45 P.M. EDT tonight. When the 600-kilogram Van Allen Probe A reenters Earth’s atmosphere, it will largely burn up, but there ...

The satellite blazed through Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, March 11.

NASA and the U.S. Space Force have been tracking a one in 4,200 chance that remnants from spacecraft can survive re-entry and harm someone on Earth. (NASA.gov photo) ...

Learn more about the Van Allen Probe A, a NASA spacecraft that returned to Earth this week after spending years in one of space’s harshest environments. After nearly 14 years and a treasure trove of ...

NASA's Van Allen Probe A, a 600kg satellite, is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere on Tuesday evening, with minimal risk of ...

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of Deimos, ...

A 1,300-pound NASA satellite is expected to crash through Earth's atmosphere March 10, 2026, with some of the spacecraft possibly surviving re-entry.

The targeted collision of a space probe with an asteroid moon can change the orbit of the main asteroid around the sun. The Dart experiment has shown this.

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