A Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX 's Starlink 6-75 mission Thursday night (May 1) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ...

Just 48 short years ago, movie director George Lucas used the phrase "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" as the ...

A space probe called Kosmos 482 sent to explore Venus by the U.S.S.R. in 1972 but marooned in Earth orbit ever since is about ...

The live stream you see above is beamed down from the International Space Station, which orbits some 250 miles above our ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth.

Low Earth orbit (LEO) is on the verge of a major expansion in crewed operations, but the proliferation of space debris could ...

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

"We're opening the door to new countries, institutions and individuals that can bring new ideas that can really fuel an ...

Amazon has launched its first operational Project Kuiper satellites in its attempt to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink—but ...

Launch pad in space? Space Force is keen to add to its arsenal a spacecraft that would essentially serve as cosmic equivalent ...