NASA's space shuttle Endeavor touched down safely for the final time at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after spending ...

Time-lapse of Space Shuttle Endeavour stacked with an external tank and pair of solid rocket boosters for a exhibit at the California Science Center. Credit: California Science Center | time-lapse by ...

An innovative approach for fully reusable spacecraft suggests making them "sweat" to survive the scorching heat during reentry to Earth's atmosphere, allowing them to land ready for another flight.

A Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to launch to Venus more than 50 years ago plunged to Earth on Saturday. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed the spacecraft – known as ...

While that prediction was thankfully revised, the planet may have to worry about another object plummeting down from the heavens — a 1970s spacecraft called Kosmos 482. The Soviet-era spacecraft ...

Lockheed Martin officials handed over the "keys" to the Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft to NASA, marking the start of its processing for launch. With the completion of its assembly and testing of the ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European ...

But drag doesn't just slow down cars. Aerospace engineers are working on using the drag force in space to develop more fuel-efficient spacecraft and missions, deorbit spacecraft without creating ...

WASHINGTON — A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its ...

In the next few days, a big chunk of a Soviet-era spacecraft will come crashing back into Earth. Kosmos 482 was bound for Venus in 1972 when it failed to escape Earth’s orbit. Bits of it have ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft that was designed to make a soft landing on Venus — but instead remained trapped in Earth orbit for decades — likely fell from the sky early Saturday morning ...

Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon crash back on Earth. The Cosmos 482 spacecraft, believed to be a piece of a larger probe, has been ...