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1,300-pound NASA satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere

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1,300-pound NASA satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere after 14 years in space

A 1,300-pound NASA probe re-entered Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday, nearly 14 years after it was launched.

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A 1,300-pound NASA spacecraft to re-enter Earth's atmosphere

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Wayward, 1,300-pound NASA satellite to crash through Earth’s atmosphere Tuesday — here’s how dangerous it will be to the public

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A 1,300-pound Nasa spacecraft to re-enter Earth's atmosphere

A more than1,300-pound (600kg) Van Allen Probe spacecraft is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere almost 14 years after its launch, Nasa says.

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1,300-pound NASA satellite set to crash back down to Earth nearly 14 years after launch

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NASA satellite to crash to Earth after 14 years in space. What to know

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NASA spacecraft makes an uncontrolled plunge back to Earth

Early analyses predict the 1,323-pound (600-kilogram) vehicle will strike the atmosphere around 7:45 p.m. ET Tuesday, “with an uncertainty of +/- 24 hours,” according to NASA and the US Space Force.

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Nasa spacecraft weighing 1,300lb due to re-enter Earth's atmosphere

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Defunct NASA satellite to crash back to Earth, with a small risk of falling debris

Scientific American

NASA space probe expected to reenter the atmosphere with a chance of raining debris

The Van Allen probe, which studied how the Earth is protected from harmful space radiation, could fall to Earth tonight. Here’s what to know

NASA's Van Allen Probe A to re-enter atmosphere

NASA's Van Allen Probe A is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere almost 14 years after launch. From 2012 to 2019, the spacecraft and its twin, Van Allen Probe B, flew through the Van Allen belts, rings of charged particles trapped by Earth's magnetic field,

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Are rocket reentries leaving pollution in the atmosphere? First direct evidence reported

First direct evidence shows rocket reentries can release lithium into the upper atmosphere. Measurements by Robin Wing et al. confirm pollution from a Falcon 9 reentry in February 2025.

Earth.com

New 3D map exposes the strange forces shaping Uranus’s upper atmosphere

Webb maps Uranus’s upper atmosphere, revealing cooling temperatures, shifting auroras, and the effects of its tilted magnetic field.

Space launches are changing the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere, studies warn. Here's what can be done

Look up on a clear night and you'll see the streaks of our new space age. What you don't see is the growing fallout for the atmosphere that keeps us alive.

Astronomy

Pluto’s strange atmosphere just collapsed

Pluto’s atmosphere is hard to observe from Earth. It can only be studied when Pluto passes in front of a distant star, allowing astronomers to see the effect the atmosphere has on starlight. When this happened in 2016, it confirmed that Pluto’s ...

PBS

How to Get an Atmosphere

Saturn's moon Titan belongs to a very select club within the solar system. It is one of only four "terrestrial" planets or moons—those with solid bodies, as opposed to those made largely of gas, like Jupiter and Saturn—that has a substantial atmosphere.

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Hydrogen atmosphere could keep exomoons habitable for billions of years

Liquid water is considered essential for life. Surprisingly, however, stable conditions that are conducive to life could exist far from any sun. A research team from the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS at LMU and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) has shown that moons around free-floating planets can keep their water oceans liquid for up to 4.