Kosmos 482 was intended as a successor to Soviet probe's like Venera 4, seen above. In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully ...

KANSAS (KSNT) – A Soviet space probe built to withstand Venus’ harsh atmosphere will crash into Earth at an unknown location sometime next week. 27 News spoke to NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador ...

In space exploration, long-distance optical links can now be used to transmit images, films and data from space probes to Earth using light. But in order for the signals to reach all the way and not ...

NASA’s twin Voyager probes have become, in some ways, time capsules of their era: They each carry an eight-track tape player for recording data, they have about 3 million times less memory than modern ...

Launching soon on one of the next cargo missions to the International Space Station is the Multi-Needle Langmuir Probe that will measure the “weather” in the upper atmosphere. The experiment is part ...

If you need yet another reminder that space travel is ridiculously complicated, two freshly launched probes have already run into trouble. On February 26, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from ...

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Sarah A. Spitzer works as a research fellow for the University of Michigan department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering. She receives funding from the the University of Michigan and from ...

A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a new lease on life as NASA engineers order the Voyager 1 and 2 deep-space ...

NASA has shared the first photos taken of China's Chang'e-6 space probe captured on the far side of the moon. The images of China's sample return spacecraft were captured by NASA's Lunar ...

These days, private businesses are making big moves in space. Two commercial space probes have just set off on a mission to ...

With China launching a batch of probes this year in the first part of its space priority programme, Cindy Hao discovers that funding issues may hit future missions Grand plans The Hard X-ray ...