Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's storied Venera program of Venus exploration. The probe launched toward the second ...

Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.

The biggest rainbow in the solar system was just captured by newly-launched spacecraft as NASA scientists study the sun and ...

Just over a month since the return of the first astronauts to orbit Earth's poles, SpaceX has released a four-hour video highlighting what that looked like from space. SpaceX launched ... button at ...

The satellite, named Biomass, launched with a rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, New Guinea, and separated from the rocket less than an hour after launch, the ESA said in a news release. About ...

Space agencies have systems in ... it—and partly because the system is still a work-in-progress. Asteroids are most easily spotted closest to Earth, when they are reflecting enough sunlight ...

A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape. "This caught our attention," Charles Black, the founder of the Earth and ...

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By Claire Moses The NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally on their way back to Earth after nine months at the International Space Station. But they were not the first to stay ...