A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within ...

Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 reentered Earth's atomosphere Saturday morning after 53 years in orbit during a failed attempt ...

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions ...

NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...

Japan launched the first solar sail into space. Solar sail technology uses light for spacecraft propulsion, but not in the same way that traditional solar panels do. While solar panels use light to ...

"Hello from lunar orbit!" the company said in a post on X.

These images feature zodiacal light — the faint, diffuse glow created by sunlight scattering off dust particles in orbit.

NASA's PUNCH mission, a tiny constellation of four satellites, captured a photo of the moon drifting across the sky through a ...

Just a few weeks after its 53rd launch anniversary, Cosmos 482 is expected to descend back to Earth's atmosphere between ...

Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, along with researchers in India and Saudi ...

NASA engineers have revived old thrusters on Voyager 1 to prevent a clog from endangering the mission during a planned ...

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