On this day in 1962, NASA’s Mariner 2 spacecraft made history with a close flyby of Venus, marking a major milestone in the early years of space exploration. The mission became America’s first ...
Can India overcome years of delays to finally send its own spacecraft astronauts into orbit? That depends on crucial launches ...
Since the accident Russia’s main space corporation, Roscosmos, has been assessing plans to repair the Site 31 launch site and ...
What the Soviets Found on Venus reveals a hellish surface, reanalyzed Venera data, and why those probes still guide today’s ...
Today is Monday, Dec. 8, the 342nd day of 2025 with 23 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury, ...
Russian Yuri Knorozov cracked the previously undecipherable Maya code, and remarkably, did it long before he ever visited ...
Rauschenberg belonged to a generation of artists that emerged between the twilight of Abstract Expressionism and the dawn of ...
On Dec. 3, 2013, a federal judge ruled that Detroit was eligible for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
The ability of Russia to launch astronauts to the International Space Station remains in limbo after an incident last week at the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan.
The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves ...
Venus, Jupiter and Saturn are easy to see in the night sky, but few skywatchers have ticked Mercury off their planetary bucket list. That may change on Tuesday, Nov. 25, when early risers (or late ...