Kosmos 482 is 3.2 feet across and could make impact at about 150 mph, per one expert Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in ...

Astronomers have recently identified a mysterious “glowing object” in Earth’s orbit. This intriguing discovery has stirred the scientific community and space enthusiasts, prompting speculation about ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...

We’ve all heard of space debris that sometimes falls back to Earth. But the next hunk of space junk set to crash-land on our planet is a little bigger than just “debris.” A Kosmos 482 spacecraft, ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of ...

A 1,000 lb. former Soviet spacecraft that has been orbiting the Earth for over 50 years is about to reenter the atmosphere — and there’s a small chance it could collide with a populated area.