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

A fragment of the failed Soviet Venus probe Cosmos 482 is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere around May 10, though experts say the exact timing and location remain uncertain.

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

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

A chunk of a spacecraft which was sent on a mission more than 50 years ago is expected to come plummeting down to Earth in ...

Most meteorites are small — pebble-sized or smaller — chunks of rocky material that, in most cases, get buried in the soil or ...

Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Francis was head of the Roman Catholic Church since 2013. (Vatican-Pope-Dead) MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has officially ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Zurab Tsereteli, a prominent Georgian-Russian sculptor known for colossal ... “I don’t know why they chose me,” ...

NASA has defined asteroids as small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets, but they are much smaller in size. Most of them are found in the main asteroid belt, a region between the orbits of ...

Unlike most other central banks, the Fed has two mandates – maintaining price stability and promoting employment growth.

Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday removed the Taliban's designation as a "terrorist organisation", a symbolic gesture aimed at building friendly ties with Afghanistan's de facto rulers. The Islamist ...

The last asteroid that hit Earth was the Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013. It exploded over Chelyabinsk in Russia and caused injury to approximately 1500 people. 2011 VG9, is six times larger than the ...