This will be no ordinary space junk fall. "As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus atmosphere, it is possible that it will survive reentry through the Earth ...

A decades-old Soviet spacecraft is expected to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere in the coming days, but it’s still a mystery as to where it will land if it survives its fiery descent. According ...

A spacecraft launched in 1972 with a mission to land on Venus is heading back to Earth. MIT professor Jeffrey ... Over Scientists Found an 8,000-Year-Old Figurine in a Cave. Its Engravings Tell ...

Due to a rocket malfunction, it remained in Earth orbit. Experts are monitoring its descent, anticipating impact between 52 degrees north and south latitude, with the possibility of some ...

A half-ton Soviet-era spacecraft launched in 1972 is expected crash into Earth after orbiting the planet for 53 years. Originally destined for Venus but stuck in orbit after a rocket malfunction ...

Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.

Later this week, a piece of Cold War space history is expected to return to Earth—although where it will land remains unclear. Scientists estimate that Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft that launched ...

It isn’t easy to figure out how the Earth was built, because it happened 4½ billion years ago, and no one was there to watch. So scientists have had to look at what the Earth looks like now and ...

While researchers are still debating the exact timeline, one thing is becoming clear. Life didn’t take long to get started.

This will be no ordinary space junk fall. The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 spacecraft will crash to Earth in the coming days after more than 50 years in orbit. Its homecoming may not spark the ...

from the depths of which life is understood to have begun 3.5 billion years ago on this 4.54 billion-year-old Earth. Nor has the human species been able to protect itself from itself, let alone ...