The spacecraft suffered an engine anomaly that left it stuck in Earth's orbit for decades, and now it's slated for an ...

William Saunders, planetary scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, revealed that Uranus occulted a star lying about 400 ...

Potential Trump administration funding cuts at NASA would take a blowtorch to space science and American leadership in space.

A new report from EarthSky estimates the lander for Kosmos 482 will re-enter Earth's atmosphere in a couple of weeks.

A rare planetary alignment is taking ... Uranus, Neptune, Venus, and Saturn. FILE - This May 18, 1969 photo provided by NASA shows Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away as photographed from ...

In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its ...

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...

A veteran NASA astronaut just back from the International Space Station believes the orbiting facility can operate well past ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...

Typically, the risk to populated areas is low, with debris more likely to fall into remote regions of the ocean.

Computer Science & Engineering faculty develop technologies for a new generation of autonomous space worker robots ...

Russia has unique scientific expertise in the study of Venus with domestic landing technology that remains unmatched globally, as well as in the study of the Moon and Mars ...