A chunk of a spacecraft which was sent on a mission more than 50 years ago is expected to come plummeting down to Earth in ...

A five-decade old spacecraft meant to explore Venus is likely to fall back to Earth next month. This spacecraft is an old ...

A half-tonne Soviet space probe designed to endure landing on Venus will tumble back to the Earth in two weeks and may “crash ...

A long-lost Soviet spacecraft the size of a car is now hurtling toward Earth, set to make a fiery, uncontrolled re-entry within days - and no one knows where it will land. Known as Kosmos 482, the ...

A spacecraft is returning after 53 years and will have an uncontrolled reentry, meaning space scientists on Earth won't be ...

A team of astronomers poring through old astronomical data may have seen a candidate for the elusive Planet Nine – a ...

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

May’s night sky is packed with astronomical events—find out when and where to look for meteor showers, ancient star clusters, ...

Planet highlights are somewhat reduced this month although Mars makes a nice addition to the dim Zodiac constellation, Cancer ...

A team of researchers has linked Earth's slowing rotation to the Great Oxidation Event, which made the planet more habitable ...

Scientists have discovered a gigantic, glowing gas of hydrogen gas lurking just 300 light-years away. As detailed in a paper ...

A Cold War-era Soviet spacecraft is set to crash back to Earth next month - and could land in Britain. Kosmos 482, which has ...