To understand how chaotic the early solar system was, we need only gaze at the moon. Its cratered surface bears the scars of ...

Cosmos-482, a failed probe to Venus launched in 1972, is finally coming home. Experts don’t know much more than that.

The odds of Kosmos 482 slamming into a populated area are ‘infinitesimally small’, said University of Colorado Boulder ...

The Soviets launched Kosmos 482 in 1972, intending to send it to Venus to join other spacecraft in their Venera program. But ...

The final day of the 53-year, errant flight of the Soviet Union’s failed Venus space probe is now upon us. It's expected to ...

In the early solar system, a massive impact shaped both Earth and the moon. A protoplanet smashed into our young planet, ...

The presentations were made by Noah Petro and Barbara Cohen, NASA’s Artemis III and IV mission science leads from the Goddard ...

Earth's atmosphere pulses in sync with the sun's fiery outbursts, indicating it is more sensitive to solar activity than previously thought, according to new research.

At the time, the Earth would have been far closer to the moon than it is today, making it perhaps twice as large in the lunar ...

NASA is exploring alternative ways to deliver its VIPER rover to the moon after canceling partnership proposals to land a ...

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead ...