50-year-old Soviet spacecraft expected to crash on Earth this weekend
View of the earth photographed from the Apollo 11 spacecraft as it approached the earth on its return from the moon on July 24, 1969.…
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A Soviet probe orbiting Earth since 1972 will soon reenter the planet’s atmosphere
The crescent moon and Venus are pictured in Bangkok in 2023. A failed Soviet lander bound for Venus in 1972 and stranded in orbit is…
Amazon launches its first internet satellites to compete against SpaceX’s Starlinks
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with a payload of 27 of Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet satellites lifts off from Launch Complex 41 at…
The Lyrid meteor shower will dazzle the night sky this week. Here’s how to watch
(EDITORS NOTE: Multiple exposures were combined to produce this image.) Startrails are seen during the Lyrid meteor shower over Michaelskapelle on April 21, 2020 in…
Katy Perry, Gayle King and others reflect on their brief but historic trip to space
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket carried an all-female crew into space on Monday morning, its 11th human flight since 2021. Justin Hamel/Getty Images hide caption…
SpaceX launches historic privately funded mission around Earth’s poles
Fram2 mission astronauts who will be first to circle the Earth from pole to pole: From left to right: pilot Rabea Rogge, Mission specialist and…
NASA website axes a pledge to land a woman and a person of color on the moon
NASA engineers work alongside the tip of a solid rocket booster for the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) in NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building at…
This astronaut spent over 100 days in space. Here’s how he says that affected him
Ground personnel help U.S. astronaut Jack Fischer after he landed in a remote area outside Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017. Sergei Ilnitsky/European Pressphoto Agency…
2 NASA astronauts return to Earth after an unexpectedly long mission in space
In this image taken from video provided by NASA, a SpaceX capsule floats in the Gulf of Mexico, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, after landing off…
Crew arrives on ISS to replace astronauts ‘stranded’ in space for 9 months
This image made from video by NASA shows astronauts waving after a four-person crew arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, March 16. AP/NASA…