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

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

The Soviet Union aimed for Venus, but hit the Indian Ocean instead The odyssey of the Soviet Union's failed attempt to reach ...

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

The spacecraft’s descent was confirmed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and other experts, though the exact location ...

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

The part, which is from the Kosmos 482 mission, was supposed to land on Venus but could not as something went wrong with the spacecraft, and it failed to finish its mission. Most parts of the mission, ...

A defunct spacecraft from the former Soviet Union that has been stuck in space for more than half a century is, at last, about to come home. Kosmos-482 was launched on a voyage to Venus in March ...

A decades-old Soviet spacecraft originally bound for Venus will crash down to Earth on Saturday, May 10, according to experts. They've been tracking the progress of Kosmos 482 — a 500-kilogram ...

Kosmos 482 was launched ... get impacted by this piece of space debris." said Mr Stijn Lemmens, Senior Space Debris Mitigation Analyst at the European Space Agency. The lander capsule is a tough ...

A team of researchers from University College London, the University of Colorado Boulder and Space Environment Technologies, are working to predict precisely when and where Kosmos 482 will land ...

Kosmos 482 is just one of more than 1.2 million pieces of space debris measuring larger than centimetre in size, according to a report by the European Space Agency (ESA). It warned that satellites ...