The International Space Station (ISS) executed evasive maneuvers Wednesday evening (April 30) to avoid a piece of passing ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached ...

A heat-protected capsule that the USSR had intended to reach Venus is on a collision path with Earth, with astronomer Marco ...

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

In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its ...

A space probe called Kosmos 482 sent to explore Venus by the U.S.S.R. in 1972 but marooned in Earth orbit ever since is about ...

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...

A defunct Soviet satelitte is slated to hurtle back to Earth next week, prompting concerns from space experts that we could ...

A half-ton Russian satellite that was built to land on Venus but never left Earth’s orbit could fall out of the sky intact in ...

It was supposed to be America's first step into space, but as the Vanguard rocket exploded in an enormous fireball in full ...

The lander section of the Kosmos 482 probe was launched in 1972 and designed to survive on Venus. Now it's due a fiery ...

Fresh from space, NASA's oldest full-time astronaut said Monday that weightlessness made him feel decades younger, with ...