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 ...

Experts don't know where this 1,000-pound Soviet spacecraft will land as it reenters Earth's atmosphere this week.

A piece of space junk called Cosmos 482 is unlikely to pose a threat to people or property. But space experts say it ...

Despite its dry, dusty surface and thinner atmosphere, Mars may have more in common with Earth than scientists previously ...

Time moves faster on the moon, and now we're one step closer to getting a lunar time zone to keep track of it.

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

Super-Earths, larger planets similar to Earth, are far more common across the universe than scientists previously believed, ...

HERE’S a question: do you know what happens to pee in space? If yes, urine with a chance of nailing this quiz. If not, you ...