The Soviet Union aimed for Venus, but hit the Indian Ocean instead The odyssey of the Soviet Union's failed attempt to reach ...

A failed Venus mission fell from the sky over the weekend after aimlessly orbiting Earth for the past 53 years. Various ...

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine malfunction.

A spacecraft that's been hanging around in orbit after a botched launch more than half a century ago has finally crashed back ...

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian ...

SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavor, with NASA astronauts Warren "Woody" Hoburg and Stephen Bowen, the United Arab Emirates' Sultan ...

A spacecraft launched more than 50 years ago has crashed into Earth.The defunct probe from the former Soviet Union, known as ...

A potentially destructive Soviet Venus lander that was lost in space for over half a century has reentered the Earth's ...

MOSCOW. May 12 (Interfax) - Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation and the China National Space Administration (CNSA) have signed a memorandum of cooperation on building a lunar power plant, ...

Humanity lives to fight another day after the failed Soviet lander re-entered our atmosphere at 2:24AM ET on Saturday before harmlessly splashing down in the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia, ...

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

"The Kosmos-482 spacecraft, launched in 1972, ceased to exist, deorbiting and falling into the Indian Ocean," the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos said on the cloud-based social media ...