Some recent spaceflight spectacles offer hints about what you might see if Kosmos 482 happens to fall through the sky above you.

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

The number of satellites orbiting Earth is rising fast, thanks to private companies such as SpaceX. But just how big will ...

A failed Soviet-era spacecraft that became trapped in Earth’s orbit by mistake more than 50 years ago is expected to make a crash landing back on Earth early Saturday.

Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 reentered Earth's atomosphere Saturday morning after 53 years in orbit during a failed attempt ...

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and elsewhere have detected ...

Thousands of satellites in low-Earth orbit could create a doom loop of dangerous debris and Julia Musto details the problem ...

Spacecraft burn tons of fuel and leave behind debris—but a clever technique called aerobraking could fix both problems.

Most space junk and meteors traveling through Earth's atmosphere burn up while whizzing at thousands ... The spacecraft will be going around 150 miles an hour when it plummets toward Earth, Langbroek ...

CAI at IIIT- Delhi developing an AI-driven Space Situational Awareness (SSA) system to monitor and manage the growing amount ...

Twenty years ago, Congress gave NASA a directive: find 90% of the near-Earth asteroids that could potentially harm our little ...