The 50-plus-year-old spacecraft was trapped in Earth orbit for decades. Now, it has likely fallen back home, according to the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that crystalline water ice exists in the debris disk surrounding HD 181327, a ...

While space junk and meteors routinely veer toward a crash-landing on ... leaving it stranded closer to home, according to ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327, a ...

Astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes thanks to data from NASA's NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) and other missions.

Meteors from the Eta Aquariids, known for their speed and created from space debris originating from Halley's comet, will ...

Cosmos 482, part of a Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus in the 1970s, is expected to crash back on Earth ...

Designing a Satellite to Hunt Small Space Debris Feb. 27, 2025 — Scientists ... a thermal imaging camera blasted off to the Moon as part of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission.

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

To clean up hazardous space debris orbiting the Earth, a group of students that includes Jackie Edwards ’25 is developing ...