A 50-plus-year-old Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to return to Earth this weekend. Cosmos 482 was launched to space by the Soviet Union in March 1972, with the intent of landing on Venus to conduct ...

Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon crash back on Earth. The Cosmos 482 spacecraft, believed to be a piece of a larger probe, has been orbiting ...

A spacecraft launched in 1972 and failed to enter Venus is set to return to Earth sometime this week. The Soviet-era spacecraft was meant to be a Venus probe. However, it failed to escape low Earth ...

Atmospheric interference significantly limits ground-based astronomical observations across various wavelengths, necessitating high-altitude or space-based alternatives. Balloon-borne observatories ...

Sagan proposed that Voyager 1, which had ventured into space, turn around and take a photograph of Earth to transmit back.

Open Cosmos says its $50 million Series B would will help it develop OpenConstellation, a virtual constellation where satellite operators share capacity on their Earth observation satellites. Credit: ...

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The recent episodes of jet fighters shooting down spy balloons has everyone talking about how they can be used for surveillance. But if anyone had bothered to ask an astronomer, they would know we’ve ...