The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's ...

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...

Physicists have created a model of a black hole bomb in the lab for the first time, verifying a theory first proposed more ...

Kosmos 482 was launched in 1972, but will soon make an uncontrolled return to Earth. Here's where the defunct spacecraft may ...

A defunct Soviet satelitte is slated to hurtle back to Earth next week, prompting concerns from space experts that we could ...

Only days after the Trump administration dismissed authors of a congressionally mandated climate report, two of the biggest ...

While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, planets with wider paths can be difficult to ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached ...

For eight years running, Finland has been rated the happiest country in the world by a peculiar United Nations-backed project ...

In its retaliation against U.S. tariffs, China slowed exports of several rare-earth minerals and magnets this month ...