Like meteors, space junk travels at vast speeds as it travels through the atmosphere and it begins burning up spectacularly.

The Soviet spacecraft Kosmos-482 was launched in 1972 on a mission to Venus. But due to a rocket malfunction, it's been ...

The asteroid, dubbed 2002 JX8, makes close approaches to both Earth and Venus relatively often, according to NASA's Jet ...

Venus and Saturn will be visible in the east ... which includes meteors that originate from Halley's Comet, took place on May 6. The comet makes a regular return to our solar system, completing ...

(AP) — A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to ... debris of Halley’s comet NASA astronauts step outside space station to perform the 5th all-female ...

The last time comet Halley was seen by casual observers ... look east about 30 minutes before sunrise to see the waning crescent moon near Venus and Saturn, according to EarthSky.

(Mars and Venus received a similar fraction ... The cometary impact model included the physics of the dynamics of the comet's breakup and thermal ablation (melting) of the comet's surfaces.

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's moon cluster together in the same region of the pre-dawn sky ...

Venus, one of the brightest objects in the night sky, shines at a magnitude of -4. Astronomers are excited because the comet is rapidly brightening as it hurtles towards the Sun. It is expected to ...