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.

A half-ton spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend ...

May 9, 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, the most important and ...

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall ...

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

A Soviet spacecraft is expected to come hurtling back to Earth after being stuck in orbit for more than 50 years. The Kosmos ...

"No need for major concern, but you wouldn't want it bashing you on the head." The Soviet Union launched Kosmos 482 in 1972, one of a series of Venus missions. But it never made it out of Earth's ...

Cosmos 482, launched in 1972 as part of the Soviet Union's Venera program, which intended to explore Venus, is forecasted to return to Earth around 2:30 a.m. ET, plus or minus four hours ...

This speech was given by Andrei Ritsky, a representative of the Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists in Russia, at the ...

We wrote about this doomed mission in 2019, and the prospects for reentry. Launched on a Molniya-8K78M rocket from the ...

China is not the new Soviet Union. And this is not 1955. It is 2025. And the future will not follow the path of the past.