On April 27, the moon blocked 23 percent of the sun in a partial eclipse, but it was not possible to see this from Earth.

The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

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

What a show Earth just put on! Over the past 24 hours ... merged as they traveled through space. Initially, it was unclear whether the CMEs would arrive separately or merge, but after the dramatic ...

A pair of 2021 satellite photos highlight an unusually heavy snowfall in Hawaii that covered the summits of the volcanoes ...

SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch schedule poised for tonight from Cape Canaveral with a 28 Starlink satellite payload.

After over five decades in Earth's orbit, the Soviet Venus lander, Kosmos 482, reentered the atmosphere on May 10, 2025, ...

Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 ...

As the last remnant of the Soviet Venus program left in Earth orbit, it’s not your average piece of space junk. Because it was designed to withstand Venusian conditions, many think the lander ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...