It isn’t easy to figure out how the Earth was built, because it happened 4½ billion years ago, and no one was there to watch. So scientists have had to look at what the Earth looks like now and ...

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra is making a fresh case for Douglas Moore’s “Giants in the Earth,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning but long obscure opera. By Joshua Barone Reporting from Sioux ...

The Earth's granite crust harbours continental landmasses that have remained stable and above mean sea level for more than a billion years 1. The withdrawal of large volumes of granitic magma from ...

Thanks to a rocket malfunction, however, it never escaped Earth orbit. Most of its launch debris fell back to our planet’s surface within a decade—but a half-ton, three-foot-wide, spherical ...

The Soviet Union launched a number of missions to explore Venus – this probe was from an earlier flight Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft is likely to have re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after ...

This month's list is as broad and varied as ever, with a little bit of Slipknot here and a touch of Portishead there, peppered with hints of '90s nostalgia and a big slice of lunar loveliness courtesy ...

Experts previously warned that due to its sturdy construction — it was designed to survive Venus's harsh atmosphere — the probe could reach Earth's surface largely intact. However, Roscosmos ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in the next few days after misfiring on a journey to Venus more than 50 years ago. On average ...

Payload leftovers were marooned in Earth orbit, specifically the spacecraft's lander module/capsule intended to parachute onto the hellish landscape of Venus. "As this is a lander that was ...

Kosmos 482 crashed into Earth on May 10, confirmed Roscosmos. The spacecraft reentered at 2:24 am ET, falling into the Indian Ocean. Launched in 1972, it malfunctioned and remained in orbit for 53 ...

An out-of-control Soviet satellite is expected to smash into the Earth today - but scientists don't know where. The spacecraft was meant to go to Venus, but it never made it to the planet and is ...