The NPP satellite, launched by a Delta II rocket, is carrying five instruments to study temperature ...

Most parts of the minivan-sized satellite were expected to burn up during re-entry into the atmosphe...

A bus-sized defunct German satellite Sunday plunged to Earth after languishing in a dead orbit for m...

A 2.4-tonne defunct satellite is expected to make a fiery death plunge to Earth this week, but exact...

The pioneering research, which analysed the minerals in a four billion-year-old Martian meteorite, p...

National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) is the ...

A team of amateur astronomers has spotted an asteroid coming close enough to Earth to pose an "impac...

The map of the moon's surface was constructed using data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (L...

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has shown surprising Earth-like geological features when astronomers c...