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

Kosmos 482 was part of the Venera program, a series of Soviet probes that set the early benchmark for exploring Venus. Its ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth ...

What caused NASA’s Columbia space shuttle to break apart during re-entry, killing all seven astronauts and changing ...

The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University is partnering with Canopy Aerospace to test next-generation ...

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board concluded that the foam strike had created a hole in the shuttle’s thermal ...

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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 ...

Among the payloads riding the Falcon 9 is Phoenix 1, a reentry capsule built by German company Atmos Space Cargo. If all goes to plan, Phoenix 1 will come back to Earth soon, splashing down in the ...

On board this mission is ADD’s 425Sat-3, Tomorrow Companies Inc.’s Tomorrow-S7, and Atmos Space Cargo’s PHOENIX re-entry capsule. This will be the third flight of the first stage booster ...

The government, through the Kenya Space Agency, has cautioned Kenyans to be vigilant about the potential re-entry of a strange object from space. The Agency, in a statement on Friday, April 18, noted ...