The 50-plus-year-old spacecraft has been trapped in Earth orbit for decades. Now, it’s expected to fall back home.

Cosmos (or Kosmos) 482's orbit has slowly brought it closer to our planet since 1972, and now it's on the cusp of plummeting ...

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

ESA’s Proba-3 mission pulled off the first-ever artificial eclipse in space using fully automated spacecraft formation flying ...

The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft known as Kosmos-482 in 1972, one of a series of Venus missions. But it never made it ...

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 ...

On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery, carrying 24,000 pounds of precision instruments into orbit. Free from Earth's atmosphere, Hubble ...

Access to and the ability to operate freely in space are vital to U.S. national interests. This framework presents the United States Space Force (USSF) current body of knowledge pertaining to ...

SEE ALSO: Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Video: The Final Flight According to a report by Matt Novak at Gizmodo, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) -- the secretive intelligence organization ...

was 77 when he flew aboard the space shuttle in 1998 as a NASA spaceflight participant. He holds the record as the oldest person to fly in orbit. The Soyuz crew's return to Earth marked the final ...

Commenting on a photo of Perry kissing the ground after returning to Earth and exiting the space shuttle, Wendy’s joked, “I kissed the ground and i liked it,” a riff on Perry’s hit song ...

"Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity," Kratsios said during prepared remarks published on the ...