CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge ...

A failed Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere some time this month. The Soviet Union launched ...

The presence of another planet in the solar system could explain the odd movements of some of the bodies in the Kuiper Belt.

Vesta has a number of characteristics working in its favor when it comes to its visibility in the night sky. For one, it ...

Many Southern Hemisphere observers consider this shower to be the best meteor shower of the year, but it's a different story ...

The Milky Way is known to host a diverse array of planetary systems, providing astronomers with extensive insights into how ...

The spacecraft was designed to survive falling through Venus's atmosphere. 53 years after launch, it's coming back.

A five-decade old spacecraft meant to explore Venus is likely to fall back to Earth next month. This spacecraft is an old ...

A distant flicker of light from a star can reveal more than you might expect. In fact, a brief, subtle brightening in the sky ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

This week, the famed NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turns 35 years-young. Launched on April 24 1990, the space telescope ...

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...