Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit. When they fall back down they're fireballs of pollution — and what doesn't burn up hits the ground.

Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Allison Parshall filling in for Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some of the latest ...

The defunct probe from the former Soviet Union, known as Kosmos 482, was launched in 1972 on a mission to explore Venus. A launch failure left it trapped in Earth’s orbit — where it has remained for ...

The spacecraft, called Kosmos 482 (also known as Cosmos 482), was launched in 1972 and once bound for Venus, but a malfunction meant it never left Earth's orbit. Because the lander was designed to ...

One probe, renamed Kosmos 482, took a little more time to return ... European Space Agency explained on its tracking blog for the object. "A precise time and location of its reentry have so far not ...

Star Wars TV Shows Andor embraces podracing with an Easter egg that calls back to a Star Wars Episode 1 video game from 1999 Star Wars TV Shows That jungle planet in Andor season 2 might actually ...