The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to ...

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

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus.

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

Stamp commemorating the Soviet Venera project (USSR Post via Wikimedia Commons) There is a small chance the space probe will burn up on reentry, but this seems unlikely as it was built to survive ...

A half-tonne Soviet space probe designed to endure landing on Venus will tumble back to the Earth in two weeks and may “crash down hard” like a meteorite, a tracker has warned. The spacecraft ...

"In about two weeks from now, on or near May 9-10, an unusual uncontrolled reentry will happen." In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran ...

After a mini-scandal involving the unauthorized removal of training manuals from Russia's Star City by the ROK's first-choice astronaut Ko San, the Russian Space Agency barred him from its program.

The secretive Russian satellite in space that US officials believe is connected to a nuclear anti-satellite weapon programme has appeared to be spinning uncontrollably, suggesting it may no longer ...

The cameras are hosted on a European Space Agency module aboard an Airbus platform, which provides both power and a share of a NASA downlink. If you tune into the current camera views, you'll spot ...

The Shenzhou-19 crew opened the hatch at 1:17 a.m. (Beijing Time) and greeted the new arrivals, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). The six crew members then took group pictures for ...

A mysterious Russian satellite, believed by US officials to support a nuclear anti-satellite weapon programme, is showing signs of erratic spinning in orbit – a potential setback for Moscow's military ...