WASHINGTON — Sometime Friday night or Saturday morning, a Soviet-era spacecraft originally meant to land on Venus will re-enter the earth's atmosphere, dropping a half-ton mass of metal back to the ...

The asteroid measured between 1.6 and 4 feet. It burned up after entering Earth’s atmosphere over Siberia in Russia. This is the fourth asteroid to enter Earth’s atmosphere in 2024. A "very small ...

A defunct, Soviet-era spacecraft is falling back to Earth uncontrolled, but experts say there’s little cause for alarm. The half-ton craft, known as Kosmos-482, was designed to land on Venus but ...

When you look at photographs of Earth from space, the planet looks like a blue marble, with patterns of clouds lying on the surface of the marble. It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, ...

A potentially destructive Soviet Venus lander that was lost in space for over half a century has reentered the Earth's atmosphere. Tracked by various space agencies and individuals, the capsule ...

The asteroid was first observed with the University of Arizona's Bok telescope by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey and Spacewatch, NASA confirmed. The impact prediction was made by the Scout system ...

If you have seen a bright light streak across the sky, you have likely seen a meteor. Meteors are rocks from space that hit Earth's atmosphere and are commonly referred to as falling stars or shooting ...