Learn how planet Earth’s only natural satellite was formed, its weird features like a black sky and extreme temperatures and ...

Experts don't know where this 1,000-pound Soviet spacecraft will land as it reenters Earth's atmosphere this week.

Kosmos 482 launched for Venus in 1972 but never left Earth orbit. The spacecraft has now lost enough energy that it can’t fight gravity anymore.

A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and remnants of an ancient magma ocean, researchers say. Crewmembers on upcoming Artemis missions could potentially ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

The Space Age past may come knocking on the world's door next week as the defunct Soviet Union's Kosmos 482 Venus lander from ...

The discovery of 2024 PT5, a small, rocky body dubbed a "minimoon" during its discovery last year, hints at a hidden ...

A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 is due to come crashing back into Earth's atmosphere around May 10 and ...

A Firefly Aerospace rocket launched from California crashed into the Pacific Ocean north of Antarctica, failing to place into ...

If the Moon were to collide with Earth, the outcome would be catastrophic—triggering mega-earthquakes, tsunamis, atmospheric ...

A rocket launch from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base did not go to plan after the spacecraft experienced a midair ...

In a fascinating intersection of space exploration and Earth science, NASA’s Apollo astronauts once trained on the alien-like ...