For the next few evenings, the waxing gibbous moon is already well up as skies darken. If you happen to see it, keep in mind ...

Earth has a growing space junk problem, with three sizable pieces of debris crashing onto our planet every day. To combat ...

A performance of the masterpiece will be transmitted into space on Saturday. The waltz has been associated with space travel ...

A huge scare was had in Indonesia after a Soviet Union spacecraft crashed to Earth, falling into the Indian Ocean, just a few kilometers off the coast. However, it was not a curren ...

The fairing enshrouds the rocket's payload during ascent and is usually jettisoned once the atmosphere is thin enough that there is no risk to the payload. That typically happens much higher up than ...

The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to touch down on Venus. Because of a propulsion problem, it never escaped ...

Failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 came crashing back down to Earth after more than half a century in space - and scientists have now confirmed where it ended up ...

In recent weeks, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 has been making an uncontrolled approach towards Earth. Experts have been tracking it since – though they noted that it was very unlikely that ...

On May 10, 2025 at 06:24 GMT, the remnants of the Kosmos 482 probe entered the Earth's atmosphere. According to Roscosmos, the titanium capsule impacted somewhere over the eastern Indian Ocean ...

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space more than 50 years ago on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine malfunction. Over time the craft fell closer and closer to Earth ...