Watch how the atmospheric re-entry of one of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy's fairings, reported to be traveling at more than 15 times ...

Meteoroid atmospheric entry is a multifaceted phenomenon wherein small celestial objects, upon encountering Earth’s atmosphere at high velocities, experience rapid heating that leads to ablation, ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign watched fragments of two meteors as they ramped up the heat from room temperature to the temperature it reaches as it enters Earth’s ...

Abstract: The Kentucky Re-entry Universal Payload System (KRUPS) provides a quick-turnaround, low-cost platform to conduct atmospheric entry experiments. KRUPS is designed to test multiple types of ...

The MSL Entry, Descent and Landing Instrument (the black box in the middle left of the photo) is scheduled to launch as part of the Mars Science Laboratory mission November 25. MEDLI will measure heat ...

For years, the main way of cleaning up space junk and retired satellites has been to let them burn up as they reenter Earth's atmosphere. For the most part, scientists have always assumed it was ...

"This particular meteor that entered the atmosphere has a long history before it made it to the ground of McDonough". A meteorite that survived atmospheric entry and smashed through the roof of a ...

The study of atmospheric dynamics intertwined with micrometeorite research has emerged as a pivotal field, merging planetary science with Earth’s upper atmospheric physics. Investigations reveal that ...