NASA has not reestablished contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter since a planned communications blackout ended Jan. 16.

A spacecraft plunged back into Earth’s atmosphere early Wednesday. While most of the probe was expected to burn up during reentry, a few components could have survived.

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,

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 27th close approach to the Sun on March 11, again matching its record distance of 3.8 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) from the solar surface.

Weighing just over 1,300 pounds, NASA’s Van Allen Probe A is hurtling toward Earth, its fiery re-entry set to slam into the atmosphere later tonight.

The Van Allen Probe A, which launched in 2012, is coming home. Here’s the latest update on what will hopefully be an uneventful reentry. In 2012, NASA launched two probes into space: Van Allen Probe A and Van Allen Probe B.

The satellite blazed through Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, March 11.

Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a frozen desert.

A full-scale model of Parker Solar Probe, the history-making Johns Hopkins APL-built spacecraft that has flown closer to the Sun than any other human-made object, is now on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F.