Several key moments in Earth's history help us humans answer the question "How did we get here?" These moments also shed light on the question "Where are we going?" and offer scientists deeper ...

“We believe these same processes may have occurred early in Earth’s history.” Although Magellan’s mission ended over 30 years ago in 1994 when mission planners commanded the spacecraft to plunge into ...

A new report from the University of Nottingham explains that sponge-like pellets may hold the key to preventing CO₂ from entering the atmosphere, supporting future net zero ambitions.

The Soviet Union launched a number of missions to explore Venus – this probe was from an earlier flight Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft is likely to have re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after ...

482 descent craft—originally designed to land on Venus—reentered Earth's atmosphere this week after spending 53 years in orbit due to a failed launch in 1972. The European Union’s Space ...

The former reentered Earth's atmosphere nine years after launch on May 5 1981, while the descent craft remained trapped inside a slowly decaying orbit that has persisted for more than 50 years.

A vintage Soviet spacecraft, Kosmos 482, is expected to make an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere this weekend. The Aerospace Corporation's prediction map estimates that the event ...

The interactions of these processes in the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere characterize the Earth’s environment as a dynamic, interactive system. The courses in this concentration ...