The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to ...

The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred ...

It's still quite uncertain just where and when the craft will fall, although it is expected to reenter around 2:26 am ET on ...

Cosmos (or Kosmos) 482's orbit has slowly brought it closer to our planet since 1972, and now it's on the cusp of plummeting ...

The Virtual Telescope Project aims to observe the anticipated reentry of the former Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 spacecraft as ...

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus.

A new study of Venus suggests that the deeply inhospitable world may be more like Earth than we thought.

Data for the study came from NASA’s Magellan mission, which orbited Venus in the 1990s. Though decades old, its radar ...

Recent sighting of spacecraft and debris burning through the atmosphere during their plummet back to Earth offer some clues ...

A potentially destructive Soviet Venus lander that was lost in space for over half a century has reentered the Earth's ...

A probe launched from the Soviet Union more than five decades ago has plummeted back to Earth, splashing down in the Indian ...