Scientists are warning that a 2.4 ton satellite, named ROSAT, is expected to re-enter the earth’s atmosphere at the end of this month. It was switched off in 1999 and has no propulsion system to ...

If it seems like old satellites are falling to earth every month… it’s because they are. Back in September, NASA’s dead Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), burned up as it re-entered our ...

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ROSAT is expected to plunge back to Earth between Oct. 21 and Oct. 24. DLR Defunct German Roentgen Satellite, nicknamed ROSAT, is due to fall to Earth between Oct. 22 and 24, Space.com reported. The ...

The recent re-entry of the UARS satellite was not the end of falling satellite debris, as the German ROSAT X-ray observatory satellite will soon crash back to Earth. Last month NASA’s large UARS ...

Not long after re-emerging en masse from our underground bunkers and panic rooms, having successfully avoided being squashed by a falling NASA satellite on Sept. 24, humanity has learned that the sky ...

Watch Thierry Legault's stunning ROSAT observation as it highlights the satellite's final orbits before re-entry on October 23rd. , but I think the video above from late September shows it better. To ...

A defunct NASA satellite that fell to Earth last week sparked some worldwide buzz, but it's not the only spacecraft falling out of space. The decommissioned German X-ray space observatory, called the ...

If you thought that Nasa's odds of one in 3,200 that someone somewhere on the Earth would be struck by a piece of the falling UARS satellite were worrying, then the next major satellite decay poses ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It hasn't been a month since the defunct Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) fell from the sky somewhere over Indonesia. Now another piece of space junk is about to crash ...