After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the planet's atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow time Saturday, according to Roscosmos, ...

The Sun is the most important star in the entire Solar System, as it is not only the gravitational force around which all other objects within it rotate, but it accounts for 99.8% ...

The research is titled " Seismic Oscillations Excited by Giant Impacts in Directly-Imaged Giant Planets. " The lead author is ...

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 ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

Launched in 1977, the Voyager spacecrafts were never expected to remain operational for over four decades. Yet in 2024, they continue to function far beyond Pluto’s orbit, challenging our historical ...

The idea that our Solar System is representative of other solar systems hasn't survived the age of exoplanet discovery.

The future of this tax credit is uncertain, as the current administration has expressed a desire to eliminate the subsidies ...

A ninth planet the size of Neptune may be hidden in the far reaches of the solar system, but the evidence has left some ...

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 ...