Debris from the 50 year-old probe Cosmos 482 crash-landed into the Indian Ocean over the weekend.

It was originally one of the Soviet Union's Venera series of probes intended to explore the planet Venus. However, shortly after launch on March 31, 1972 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in what is ...

failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to touch down on Venus. Because of a propulsion problem, it never escaped Earth's orbit. A half-century later, the landing capsule was predicted ...

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus.

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

After a groundbreaking discovery that found possible evidence of life in Venus’s acidic skies, Toronto-born Sara Seager is ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European ...

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a ...