Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high ...

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

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

A 50-year-old Russian spacecraft is crashing back down to Earth this month, but nobody knows where it will land.

While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work significant changes over eons. One of those ...

Major elements of that failed craft remained in Earth orbit. The upper stage of the Soyuz booster launching that Venus probe cut off prematurely, leaving the payload marooned in Earth orbit.

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an ...

While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached its destination, a malfunctioning Soyuz rocket ensured its sibling Kosmos 482 craft never made it past Earth’s orbit. The long-dead probe’s ...

Idealized ice growth and stratigraphy at onset of snowball Earth. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2418281122 ...