Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall ...

Time was, the Soviet Union fairly owned Venus. From 1961 to 1983, the U.S.’s old space race rival launched 16 probes, Venera ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within days.

An ominous map reveals the major cities around the world that could be hit by a falling Soviet spacecraft, and London is ...

It wouldn't be the first time, either. Back in 1978, a Soviet satellite spread radioactive debris across Canada's Far North ...

We remembered Yuri Zakharenko today. And then, in 1999, on the eve of signing the Treaty on the creation of the "union state," the leader of the opposition Gennady Karpenko was killed. Later, in ...

The White House has cut off billions in federal funding from major American research universities as the United States and ...

But the Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviets could attempt to ...

Unfortunately, as is often the case with sending spacecraft flying into the Solar System, not all of the probes made it to their final destination. One probe, launched in 1972, failed to make it to ...

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

NASA is exploring alternative ways to deliver its VIPER rover to the moon after canceling partnership proposals to land a ...

Kosmos 482 was meant to explore Venus, but became an accidental satellite. Everything to know about the Soviet Venus probe ...