The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 spacecraft will crash to Earth in the coming days after more than 50 years in orbit. Its ...

Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.

A piece of space junk called Cosmos 482 is unlikely to pose a threat to people or property. But space experts say it ...

It's too early to know where the half-ton mass of metal might come down or how much of it will survive reentry.

NASA scientists say a 1972 probe launched by the Soviet Union may meet a fiery end crashing back into Earth in the coming ...

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 ...

We wrote about this doomed mission in 2019, and the prospects for reentry. Launched on a Molniya-8K78M rocket from the ...

Venera 1 was launched in 1961, only four years after Sputnik 1, the first satellite. Venera 7, in 1970, was the first ...

After a failed soviet union mission to venus 53 years ago the spacecraft has been left in orbit around earth since the early ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era probe, is reentering Earth this month. Launched in 1972 for a Venus mission, it failed to escape Earth's gravity. Satellite trackers are monitoring its descent.

Yet while Venera 8 successfully landed on Venus in July 1972 and survived 50 minutes on the surface, the later mission failed and the craft separated into several pieces. Some of these remained in ...