Launched to study the asteroid belt, NASA’s Dawn mission made history by orbiting two celestial bodies - Vesta and Ceres. While Ceres appeared to be a barren rock, what Dawn uncovered was nothing ...

A Ring doorbell camera in Peosta, Iowa, captured a bright meteor from the Eta Aquarids shower in the early hours of 12 May.

The work that we’re doing is really important because warning time is everything,” says Danica Remy of the B612 Foundation in ...

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 could crash to Earth overnight tonight after more than 50 years in the wrong orbit.

The 50-plus-year-old spacecraft was trapped in Earth orbit for decades. Now, it has likely fallen back home, according to the ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within ...

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall ...

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

A Soviet-era spacecraft, Kosmos 482, initially intended for Venus, is set to reenter Earth's atmosphere unpredictably.

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

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