ESA investigates the Proba-3 anomaly after losing contact with the Coronagraph spacecraft. Mission teams study recovery ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kosmos 482 lander probe. (NASA) A Soviet-era spacecraft launched in the 1970s is expected to make its return to Earth sometime ...

Just a day after NASA launched its Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft on a multi-month, ultra-efficient journey to the Moon, it went dark. NASA couldn't communicate with it, despite having received earlier ...

Why did a $72 million mission to study water on the moon fail so soon after launch? A new NASA report has the answer.

The heavily armored Parker Solar Probe has traveled to within just 3.86 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface — what NASA calls “hyper close.” It’s the third time it has ...

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 on May 5 that Cosmos 482 will return to Earth sometime ...

Most calculations predict the decaying probe's remnants could come crashing down early Saturday morning. Given its orbit, the spacecraft could land pretty much anywhere, astronomers calculate. But ...

UAE Space Agency Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) Hope probe captured high-resolution image of Mars' moon Deimos. The spacecraft flew "as close as 100km (62 miles)" from the Martian moon. Credit: UAE Space ...

Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft may return to Earth this week, more than 50 years after it embarked on a botched mission to Venus. Cosmos 482 launched in 1972 with the intent of landing on Venus for ...

By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that ...

Why did a $72 million mission to study water on the moon fail so soon after launch? A new NASA report has the answer.