A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and remnants of an ancient magma ocean, researchers say. Crewmembers on upcoming Artemis missions could ...

This will be no ordinary space junk fall. The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 spacecraft will crash to Earth in the coming days after more than 50 years in orbit. Its homecoming may not spark the ...

The outer space around the Earth is already pretty crowded. Now, tech firms are racing to add more. There are already thousands of satellites hurdling around the Earth in low orbit - many of them ...

While space junk and meteors routinely veer toward a crash-landing on Earth, most of the objects disintegrate as they’re torn apart due to friction and pressure as they hit Earth’s thick ...

The failed Venus probe has been stuck in low Earth orbit since its launch in 1972. Marco Langbroek, a lecturer in space situational awareness at Delft Technical University in the Netherlands ...

On May 3, the space agency launched a similar scientific balloon designed to remain aloft longer and further qualify the system for future science missions.

A half-ton Soviet spacecraft that never made it to Venus 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend. A major part of NASA's nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just ...