The Kosmos 482 Descent Craft is predicted to crash back down to Earth this week and the potential crash site is enormous ...

Kosmos-482, which was headed to Venus, is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere by the end of this weekend. Experts don’t ...

A Venus explorer launched by the former Soviet Union over 50 years ago that failed to reach the planet is expected to reenter ...

During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR launched 29 spacecraft towards Venus, the planet ...

After more than five decades silently orbiting our planet, a relic of the Cold War space race is making a dramatic and fiery ...

A failed Soviet-era spacecraft that became trapped in Earth’s orbit by mistake more than 50 years ago is expected to crash ...

Venera 1 was launched in 1961, only four years after Sputnik 1, the first satellite. Venera 7, in 1970, was the first ...

During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR launched 29 spacecraft towards Venus, the planet scientists call Earth's " twin ...

The spacecraft malfunctioned on its way to Venus more than 50 years ago. There’s a ‘not-trivial chance’ it could damage ...

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

The spacecraft separated into four pieces, two of which fell back to Earth shortly thereafter. The other two, believed to be ...