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Incoming! 1,300-pound NASA satellite crashes back to Earth over eastern Pacific Ocean
By Mike Wall last updated
NASA's Van Allen Probe A crashed to Earth on Wednesday morning (March 11) after nearly 14 years in orbit, according to the space agency. Most of the spacecraft likely burned up in the atmosphere.

Black hole and neutron star mergers push the laws of physics with their odd orbits
By Robert Lea published
Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics.

Rocket launch today: Is there a rocket launch and what time?
By Josh Dinner, Tariq Malik last updated
Follow Space.com's rocket launch blog for the latest on when the next rocket launch will be and how to follow it live.

Watch Northrop Grumman's 1st 'Cygnus XL' cargo spacecraft leave the space station on March 12
By Mike Wall published
Northrop Grumman's first "Cygnus XL" cargo ship will depart the International Space Station Thursday morning (March 12), and you can watch the action live.

Could NASA use expandable habitats for its Artemis moon bases? These two companies are betting millions
By Josh Dinner published
Voyager Technologies is backing lunar habitat developer Max Space with a new multi-million-dollar investment aimed at accelerating development of expandable modules for future missions to the moon.

'In the old days, we were staring at a f ***ing green screen with tape marks on it': We talk to 'Star Trek' legend Jonathan Frakes about directing 'Starfleet Academy' season 1's penultimate episode
By Jeff Spry published
'The scope of 'Starfleet Academy' in terms of design, art direction, visual effects, practical effects, and graphics is massive.'

Your cosmic catch: A home guide to identifying and observing meteorite features
By Heather Barker published
Our how-to for observing a meteorite through a microscope.

The 'invisible giant' at the heart of our galaxy | Space photo of the day for March 11, 2026
By Brett Tingley published
A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our galaxy.

'War Machine' succeeds where 'Transformers' fails, by making its giant robot feel real
By Sergio Pereira published
Autobots, roll out – out of the way, that is, because War Machine is proving how to do human vs intergalactic machine conflict better.

NASA's DART planetary defense mission reveals asteroids hurling 'cosmic snowballs' at each other
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.
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