The banks of the Dead Sea are the lowest point on dry land but not the deepest point on Earth's surface. That distinction ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

New discoveries by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover may not only explain why the Red Planet is a dry, lifeless desert, but that it ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like world 4,000 light-years away that shows another way forward. This world remains intact, orbiting an ancient white dwarf that was probably very much like ...

A 5,000-pound dead satellite resembling a spaceship from Star Wars is hurtling towards Earth, but don’t worry—experts say situations like this happen “every week or two.”. Launched in 1995 ...

The satellite tracked the planet's shrinking polar ice, sea levels and atmospheric make-up. In Graphics: A dead satellite will crash back to Earth this Wednesday. What to know.

A massive, dead ESA satellite will fall back to Earth later this month. The satellite, which is known as ERS-2, first launched into orbit in 1995.Now, almost thirty years later, it will return to ...

The U.S. military predicts that the 5,400-pound (2,450 kilograms) Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) will crash back to its home planet Sunday around 6:40 p.m. EST (2340 GMT), plus or minus ...

NASA’s Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) is no more after almost four decades in orbit. The US Department of Defense confirmed via the space agency that the 5,400 pound satellite re ...

NASA's defunct, 600-pound (270 kilograms) RHESSI spacecraft is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday (April 19) at 9:30 p.m. ET, plus or minus 16 hours.