A Soviet-area spacecraft that orbited Earth for more than 50 years crashed into the Indian Ocean on Saturday, Russian ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft has plunged to Earth, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The half-ton ...

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions for exploring the solar system.

Cosmos 482, launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1972 with a destination of Venus, malfunctioned and has been in ...

Launched over 50 years ago, this piece of the Kosmos 482 mission was designed to survive the punishing conditions on Venus.

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

Predictions for the earthly plunge of a wayward Soviet era Venus space probe are narrowing as the old spacecraft is expected ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft that never made it beyond Earth’s orbit on its way to Venus, is due to come crashing down 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 back to its home world.

‘Smiley face’ in the sky: The close alignment of Venus, Saturn, and a crescent moon created a formation resembling a smiling face during a rare cosmic event. Sky smiled back! In the early ...