President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first ...

A Soviet spacecraft is falling back to Earth after 50 years in orbit. Experts warn of possible debris impact as tracking ...

“I don’t know that I see the clear military advantage of refueling,” Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton, the Space Force’s deputy chief ...

True Anomaly, a Colorado-based space defense startup, has secured $260 million in Series C funding to accelerate the ...

The probe was supposed to travel to Venus but got stuck in Earth's orbit, where it has been decaying for more than half a century.

The Soviet Union launched Kosmos 482 on March 31, 1972. At the time, the spacecraft was part of the Venera program, which ...

A Soviet spacecraft launched a half-century ago called Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades and is at last ...

Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades. It's still unknown if the craft will fall to Earth intact or burn up upon ...

After more than 50 years in space, the Kosmos-482 spacecraft, originally launched by the Soviet Union in 1972, is set to meet its fiery end as it reenters Earth’s atmosphere. This piece of space ...

The mission was named Fram2 in honor of a 19th century sailing ship — Fram, or “forward” in Norwegian — that carried arctic ...

Startup Inversion Space says its first flight of a reentry vehicle was “profoundly valuable” even though the vehicle did not ...

Wilmore, who recently spent more than nine months in space, was a 1981 Mt. Juliet High School graduate with family still in ...