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

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

A failed Venus mission fell from the sky over the weekend after aimlessly orbiting Earth for the past 53 years. Various ...

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

FILE - This photo provided by researcher Jane Greaves shows the planet Venus, seen from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s ... The United States Space Command routinely monitors dozens of ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft called Kosmos 482 has crashed on Earth after 53 years "stuck in orbit," according to The Associated ...

Kosmos 482 was built as the twin of Venera 8 ... land—the chances of a destructive impact grow as the number of reentries ...

The spacecraft, stuck in orbit since 1972 after an unsuccessful mission to Venus, plunged into the Indian Ocean.

The Kosmos 482 craft was built to survive the crushing ... but also due to the changeable ‘space weather’ in the upper atmosphere. During events called solar storms, for example, the sun releases ...

Kosmos 482 became stranded in Earth’s orbit after a premature engine cutoff during its launch phase. Now the spacecraft is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere between May 8 and 11 - after 53 years ...