When part of a SpaceX rocket re-entered Earth's atmosphere exactly a year ago, it created a spectacuglar fireball that ...

Frequent deployment of satellites and re-entries by the rockets that deploy them might pose a risk to the Earth's upper ...

A recent study has confirmed that SpaceX rockets reentering Earth's atmosphere are contributing to metal pollution, as ...

For the first time ever, scientists have observed in near real time a cloud of air pollution created as a SpaceX rocket burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

The recent study focuses on the amount of lithium left behind from a single rocket reentry. Previous studies have already ...

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 ...

For years, the main way of cleaning up space junk and retired satellites has been to let them burn up as they reenter Earth's atmosphere. For the most part, scientists have always assumed it was ...

Inside NASA’s Arc Jet Complex at the Ames Research Centre in California, a heat shield design is being put to the test ...

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 ...

GOLDEN, CO — The surge in megasatellite constellations is creating problems beyond amplifying the Earth-circling space debris, according to new research. Reentering spacecraft and rocket stages may ...

ERS-2, a satellite commissioned by the European Space Agency nearly 30 years ago, is set to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere this morning—though the ESA said this poses an extremely low risk to people, ...