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

A 2021 satellite image shows destructive lava flows burning through a residential area in the Canary Islands as molten rock ...

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The lava flows, which stretched up to 4 miles (6.4 kilometers) long, were clearly visible from space and ended up covering a total area of around over 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares), including ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet probe launched in 1972, recently crashed into the Pacific Ocean. The mission to Venus failed due to a ...

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On Feb. 27, 1988, the first of my weekly columns on stargazing appeared in print. More than 1.5 million words later, I sit ...

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After 53 years stuck in space, a Soviet spacecraft designed to land on Venus has finally crash-landed back on Earth. The Kosmos 482 probe, a relic from the first Space Race, crashed harmlessly ...

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A Soviet spacecraft that's been stuck in low Earth orbit ever since it launched in 1972 has finally crashed back down to our planet. Kosmos 482 rocketed into space more than 50 years ago on a ...