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

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

New research strengthens the case that Venus, long considered a geologically stagnant world, may be more Earth-like in its ...

A failed Soviet-era spacecraft that became trapped in Earth’s orbit by mistake more than 50 years ago is expected to make a ...

A piece of Soviet hardware built to survive the burning, crushing environment of Venus will soon crash down to Earth and, so far, no one has any idea where it might land. On March 27 and March 31, in ...

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.

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-era ...

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 ...

Venus may not have Earth-style tectonic plates, but it’s far from geologically quiet. A new model shows its crust is ...

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