A Soviet spacecraft is expected to come hurtling back to Earth after being stuck in orbit for more than 50 years. The Kosmos ...

An aerospace engineer explains why NASA, Space Force and other agencies are using or testing aerobraking for more ...

Kosmos-482, which was headed to Venus, is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere by the end of this weekend. Experts don’t ...

Venera 1 was launched in 1961, only four years after Sputnik 1, the first satellite. Venera 7, in 1970, was the first ...

Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft known as Cosmos 482 may return to Earth this week, more than 50 years after it embarked on a ...

Cosmos 482, part of a Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus in the 1970s, is expected to crash back on Earth ...

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

Though they don't orbit around our sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar ...

Twice every 12 days, the NISAR satellite will scan nearly all of earth's land and ice surfaces to measure changes in the ...

Called "Rendezvous and Proximity Operations," this kind of maneuvering is aimed at understanding satellites behavior or ...

Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy, the Space Force’s top acquisition official, on April 29 signed off on a new acquisition plan that ...

The launch kicks off the first installment for Amazon’s Project Kuiper, a plan to create a massive constellation of ...