A NASA spacecraft is set to make an uncontrolled plunge back to Earth. Here are the risks

A spacecraft could plunge into Earth’s atmosphere as soon as Tuesday. While most of the probe will likely burn up during reentry, a few components are expected to survive.

NASA Says An Old Satellite Crashes Back To Earth, But It’s Not Expected To Cause Injuries To People

We’ve had things that have reentered have a 1 in 1,000 chance, and nothing happened; if we have a few that are 1 in 4,000 or ...

NASA assures surviving parts of spacecraft crashing to Earth pose 'low risk' of hitting people

NASA's Van Allen Probe A re-entered Earth's atmosphere on 11 March, nearly eight years earlier than projected. TheU.S. Space Force confirmed the 600-kilogram (1,323-pound) spacecraft burned up over ...

New observations show the aftermath of a spacecraft intentionally colliding with an asteroid

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.