New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth's hotter twin, according to new ...

Some recent spaceflight spectacles offer hints about what you might see if Kosmos 482 happens to fall through the sky above ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in the next few days ...

This will be no ordinary space junk fall ... the Soviet Union's storied Venera program of Venus exploration. The probe launched toward the second planet from the sun in 1972 but never got there ...

A recent NASA-funded study has unveiled groundbreaking details about Venus’ crust that challenge previous assumptions about ...

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

On March 27 and March 31, in 1972, the Soviet Union launched two new spacecraft bound for the planet Venus ... journey to Venus. However, a problem occurred after it reached space which trapped ...

A Soviet spacecraft that stalled on its way to Venus is about to fall back to Earth, space-debris trackers say ... Most of the planet is water, so it's highly unlikely that the capsule will ...

Cosmos 482 lifted off on March 31, 1972, onboard a Soviet Soyuz SL-6/A-2-e launcher four days after its twin, Venera 8, for a joint study of Venus.... Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for ...

Soviet space probe Venera 5 or 6 launched in January 1969. This is a still from the film 'The Storming of Venus' released on ... sent to the moon and the planets, carried along with them small ...

Medallion which was delivered to the surface of planet Venus by the soviet space probe Venera 3 on March 1, 1966. Universal Images Group—Getty Ordinarily, even a spacecraft as big as Kosmos 482 ...