Ancient North American droughts were driven by Earth’s orbital shifts, study from the University of Helsinki finds.

The AP reported that there are millions of pieces of space junk of about one-ninth of an inch or larger that can carry the ...

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus.

Recent discoveries have challenged previous assumptions about the space near Earth, revealing a potential population of ...

At any given moment, more than 10,000 satellites are whizzing around the planet at roughly 17,000 miles per hour. This constellation of machinery is the technological backbone of modern life ...

In 1972, a Soviet spacecraft bound for Venus failed to escape Earth’s gravity and got stuck orbiting our planet. Now, 50-odd ...

As the last remnant of the Soviet Venus program left in Earth’s orbit, Kosmos 482 is not your average piece of space junk ...

It warned that satellites or rocket bodies are now re-entering the Earth's atmosphere more than three times a day, on average, and orbital collisions and uncontrolled re-entries are becoming ...

That leaves thinner air at the edge of space. The problem is that atmospheric density is the only thing that naturally pulls space junk out of orbit. Earth's atmosphere doesn't suddenly give way to ...

Kosmos 482, which launched in 1972 on a mission to Venus, never made it out of Earth's orbit and instead broke into four pieces that have been circling the planet for more than five decades.

A long period of drought in North America has been recognized by scientists for decades. A new study links the severe climate to a change in Earth's orbit.