NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory director Laurie Leshin discussed various outer space endeavors in an earth and planetary ...

Plans call for the NASA spacecraft on Tuesday to hurtle through the sizzling solar atmosphere and pass within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles of the… WATCH: NASA launches Europa Clipper to ...

Laurie Leshin announced today (May 7) that she'll step down from her role as director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

Source: Space.com Launched more than 50 years ago, the Soviet-era Kosmos 482 probe is due to reenter Earth this month in an uncontrolled fashion. Part of a 1972 mission to Venus, the spacecraft ...

and other spacecraft are built to be repairable, it will take reliable trajectories for service spacecraft to reach them safely. Researchers are developing a ... Multinational Research Project ...

"The event was fainter than we expected." A dramatic aircraft chase of a falling spacecraft has provided new insights into the fiery processes that accompany the atmospheric demise of retired ...

A Cold War-era spacecraft is about to return to Earth, the final leg of its failed mission to explore one of our closest cosmic neighbors. Kosmos 482 was launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 to ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft is set to reenter Earth's atmosphere after over 50 years, returning this week from its failed mission to Venus . NASA said Monday that Cosmos 482 will return to Earth ...

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A doomed 53-year-old Soviet lander currently tumbling back to Earth could be trailing a parachute, new images of the spacecraft reveal. The Kosmos 482 probe, which launched in 1972, was built to ...