Newly published images suggest that an unknown structure is trailing behind the Kosmos 482 probe on its descent to Earth. It ...

A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 is due to come crashing back into Earth's atmosphere around May 10 and ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth.

A piece of a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1972 is expected to crash back down to Earth very soon, experts say. The part, ...

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

The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University is partnering with Canopy Aerospace to test next-generation ...

A defunct Soviet probe designed to land on Venus will have an uncontrolled reentry this month and pieces of it may make it to ...

"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 ...

Kosmos 482 was launched in 1972, but will soon make an uncontrolled return to Earth. Here's where the defunct spacecraft may ...

We're likely less than two weeks from a former Soviet Union spacecraft re-entering Earth's atmosphere, but there's a problem: ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the ...

Soviet-era spacecraft Kosmos 482 expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere in early May, posing minimal risk of impact.