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Sen, a company based in London, provides views of Earth from orbit, with the hopes of making an experience usually reserved ...
A network of Cold War-era infrasound sensors can help scientists reconstruct trajectories of falling space objects.
A 2021 satellite image shows destructive lava flows burning through a residential area in the Canary Islands as molten rock ...
Debris from the 50 year-old probe Cosmos 482 crash-landed into the Indian Ocean over the weekend.
Fram2's orbit flew Dragon on a north-to-south trajectory in low Earth orbit at an altitude of about 271 miles (437 kilometers ...
A Soviet-era spacecraft has plunged to Earth, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The half-ton ...
The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 Venus probe will fall back to Earth from orbit soon, and it may well make it to the ...
During a recent space storm simulation, the Earth was hit by the biggest geomagnetic storm in 20 years, helping NASA predict ...
A failed Soviet-era spacecraft that became trapped in Earth’s orbit by mistake more than 50 years ago is expected to make a crash landing back on Earth early Saturday.
Kosmos 482 launched for Venus in 1972 but never left Earth orbit. The spacecraft finally lost enough energy that it couldn't fight gravity anymore.
An aerospace engineer explains why NASA, Space Force and other agencies are using or testing aerobraking for more ...