After a rescue mission failed to save NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, the doomed spacecraft is due to plummet back to Earth in a blaze of fire this week. Most of Swift should burn up in the ...

The U.S Space Force predicts it will re-enter the atmosphere on or around Friday with most of the telescope expected to burn ...

It's unclear at the moment exactly when and where the Swift observatory will plunge to Earth. But researchers definitely have ...

In the early history of our solar system, scientists theorize that a Mars-sized object called Theia smashed into the infant Earth, vaporizing massive amounts of rock and blasting it into space. Some ...

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Part of a discarded SpaceX rocket is believed to have crashed into the moon at 8700 kilometres per hour earlier this morning. Astronomers around the world trained their telescopes on the predicted ...

A 8,000-pound (4,000-kilogram) piece of space hardware is currently barreling toward a violent end. Floating through the void since early 2025, the discarded upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is ...

A large fragment of a SpaceX rocket, weighing around four tonnes, is on course to strike the Moon at high speed on Wednesday after orbiting in space since last year. While the crash is not expected to ...

A dead SpaceX rocket is about to leave its mark on the Moon. Early Wednesday, Aug. 5, a spent Falcon 9 upper stage is set to slam into the lunar surface near Einstein Crater at about 2:34 a.m. ET, ...

An abandoned SpaceX rocket is said to have crashed into the Moon. While it poses no danger to Earth, the collision is expected to form a new lunar crater. An estimated one million kilogrammes of ...

In the early hours of Aug. 5 (UTC), an abandoned SpaceX rocket stage is expected to slam into the Moon at around 5,406 miles per hour (8,700 km/h). Launched in January 2025, the rocket sent two ...

In the early hours of August 5 (UTC), an abandoned SpaceX rocket stage is expected to slam into the moon at around 8,700 kilometers per hour. Launched in January 2025, the rocket sent two commercial ...