Venus, often written off as a geologically dead world, is far more active beneath its blistering surface than previously ...

Kosmos 482 was launched in March 1972 as part of the Soviet Venera program to explore Venus from the surface. A launch mishap ...

Credit: NASA/Ralf Vandebergh That soon-to-reenter ... intended to parachute onto the hellish landscape of Venus. "As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus ...

Part of a spacecraft that has been stuck in orbit for 53 years is due to reenter Earth’s atmosphere around May 10 and could arrive intact.

The spacecraft suffered an engine anomaly that left it stuck in Earth's orbit for decades, and now it's slated for an ...

The Cosmos 482 lander (also known as Kosmos 482) has been in a decaying orbit since the Soviet Union launched the spacecraft ...

To represent the upcoming crash of the Kosmos 482 Venus lander, a NASA image of the Soviet Venera 8 descent stage has been digitally added to an artist's impression of an ESA Cluster mission ...

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

To represent the upcoming crash of the Kosmos 482 Venus lander, a NASA image of the Soviet Venera 8 descent stage has been digitally added to an artist's impression of an ESA Cluster mission ...

Cosmos (or Kosmos) 482's orbit has slowly brought it closer to our planet since 1972, and now it's on the cusp of plummeting ...

NASA predicts the decaying probe could reenter Earth's atmosphere within a week. Cosmos 482 was one in a pair of identical Venus atmospheric lander probes that launched in 1972. Part of a Soviet ...