For decades, the Kármán Line, set at an altitude of 100 kilometers (or 62 miles) above sea level, has been the widely ...

The failed Venus lander will likely survive re-entry into Earth's orbit due to its specially designed heat shield ...

How is it possible for the ISS to stay in orbit? Learn more about the science behind orbiting Earth and more in this NASA ...

on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 earth-orbital mission. NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the United ...

The lander section of the Kosmos 482 probe was launched in 1972 and designed to survive on Venus. Now it's due a fiery ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached ...

In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its ...

The Moon’s surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometres across ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

These measurements are necessary for improving our ability to accurately predict satellite locations so that we can perform ...

Once you remember that the sun also orbits the solar system's common center of mass, it all makes sense. Our sun is wobbling, ...

Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up ...