Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Mind-boggling beauty abounds in photographs from around the globe submitted to this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year ...

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

What's happening in the skies over North Texas this month? May holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky.

A Soviet space probe launched in the 1970s on a failed mission to Venus is expected to land back on Earth as early as this ...

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 Soviet spacecraft Kosmos-482 was launched in 1972 on a mission to Venus. But due to a rocket malfunction, it's been hurtling back towards Earth in an elliptical orbit for the past 53 years.

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 ...