After more than five decades silently orbiting our planet, a relic of the Cold War space race is making a dramatic and fiery ...

Kosmos 482 launched for Venus in 1972 but never left Earth orbit. The spacecraft has now lost enough energy that it can’t fight gravity anymore.

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

The solar gravitation lens (SGL) has much potential as a telescope. This point in space, located about 650 AU away from the ...

The Cosmos 482 lander (also known as Kosmos 482) has been in a decaying orbit since the Soviet Union launched the spacecraft in a failed 1972 ...