Venera 1 was launched in 1961, only four years after Sputnik 1, the first satellite. Venera 7, in 1970, was the first spacecraft to successfully soft-land instead of crashing on a planet. Vega 2 was ...

It’s bringing that professional here... and understanding that they come from the same communities that you came from,” the ...

This is the first time anyone in the United States has flown a reusable hypersonic rocket plane since the last flight of the ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

Experts say space junk re-entering Earth's atmosphere could jump to 15 objects a day within 10 years. View on euronews ...

This year, my third China Space Day event was spent in Shanghai, after Wuhan last year and Hefei the year before. It was held ...

Imagine driving down highway 95 in southwestern Arizona. It’s sunset, not quite twilight yet, but you can see that night is ...

NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months ...

Small companies are producing parts for constructing rockets using 3D printing, a technology that has potential to shake up ...

NGC 4945, a beautiful spiral galaxy over 12 million light-years away, hides a ferocious secret: a ravenous black hole at its ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...

The Starlink 6-75 mission launched at 9:51 p.m. on May 1 from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40, sending 28 Starlink internet ...