Kosmos 482 appears to have fallen harmlessly into the sea. That's just one estimate, however; other space agencies and tracking organizations predicted different reentry locations, from the South ...

it may be severely damaged on impact.” Falling Space Debris: What Are the Odds It Will Hit a Populated Area? Despite the possibility of Kosmos 482 surviving re-entry, the risk of it landing in a ...

Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Allison Parshall filling in for Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some of the latest ...

The impact location was traced to a salt lake between Norseman and Hyden in the state's south. A country police officer has won the race to recover a meteorite that lit up the skies over southern ...

This story features data reporting by Rob Powell and is part of a series utilizing data automation across 97 metros.

This lets us gather a ton of useful data, from spin rate and dispersion to ball speed and carry distance across 9 different impact locations on the face. We also use the same shaft to create a ...

Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit. When they fall back down they're fireballs of pollution — and what doesn't burn up hits the ground.

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