The huge antenna for Europe's newly launched Biomass forest-monitoring satellite has been successfully deployed, a big ...

NASA budget proposal would slash around US$6 billion (£4.4 billion) in funding. This is a huge reduction, amounting to around ...

Playmobil is inspiring kids (and adults) to imagine their future on the moon through a new play set produced in partnership ...

After initial positioning by ground control, the satellite duo’s autonomous system of cameras, LEDs, and laser rangefinders ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission pulled off the first-ever artificial eclipse in space using fully automated spacecraft formation flying ...

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine malfunction.

Exploring the Moon could soon become as simple as moving around a city using Google Maps or Waze. That is the goal of the Spanish company GMV, which has unveiled an innovative navi ...

After more than half a century orbiting Earth, the Soviet-era space probe Cosmos 482 has brought its long and ultimately ...

Massive ripples in the very fabric of space and time wash over Earth constantly, although you'd never notice. An astrophysicist is trying a new search for these gravitational waves.

The world was watching the skies as Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft launched in 1972, made an uncontrolled re-entry into ...

The probe is projected to crash between between 52° North and 52° South - a big span of the Earth that just includes a ...