Ukraine’s “Operation Spiderweb” drone strike on June 1st, which reportedly destroyed or damaged numerous irreplaceable Soviet ...

Kosmos 482 was part of 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; its rocket suffered an ...

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall back to our planet. Exactly where or when it will strike, however, remains ...

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

This Cold War outpost concealed more than submarines—it hosted a devastating eruption that cooled the planet nearly 200 years ...

On March 31, 1972, the Soviet Union launched a spacecraft as part of a series of unmanned missions to Venus known as the Venera program. But the spacecraft never made it to Venus. Instead, ...

Soviet leader Josef Stalin's legacy includes mass purges and executions. Statues of him in Russia came down decades ago, but ...

This will be no ordinary space junk fall. The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 spacecraft will crash to Earth in the coming days after more than 50 years in orbit. Its homecoming may not spark the ...

Kosmos 482 was part of 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; its rocket suffered an ...