The Soviet space program had a lot of hope riding on the Cosmos 482 mission when it launched in March 1972. The mission ...

A piece of space junk called Cosmos 482 is unlikely to pose a threat to people or property. But space experts say it ...

The mission was named Fram2 in honor of a 19th century sailing ship — Fram, or “forward” in Norwegian — that carried arctic ...

“I don’t know that I see the clear military advantage of refueling,” Lt. Gen. Shawn Bratton, the Space Force’s deputy chief ...

The Soviet Union launched Kosmos 482 on March 31, 1972. At the time, the spacecraft was part of the Venera program, which ...

A Soviet spacecraft launched a half-century ago called Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades and is at last ...

Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades. It's still unknown if the craft will fall to Earth intact or burn up upon ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to come hurling down back to Earth after being stuck in orbit for more than 50 years. The Kosmos 482 probe was intended to reach Venus, but never made it. Instead, ...

I n a world first, Chinese scientists have been able to find a satellite using an infrared laser during the daytime. The ...

Wilmore, who recently spent more than nine months in space, was a 1981 Mt. Juliet High School graduate with family still in ...

Startup Inversion Space says its first flight of a reentry vehicle was “profoundly valuable” even though the vehicle did not ...

As we gaze upward at the night sky, the stars no longer represent distant, unreachable points of light. Instead, they beckon as potential destinations for the growing number of civilian space ...