For the next few evenings, the waxing gibbous moon is already well up as skies darken. If you happen to see it, keep in mind ...

Earth has a growing space junk problem, with three sizable pieces of debris crashing onto our planet every day. To combat ...

known as Kosmos 482, was launched in 1972 on a mission to explore Venus. A launch failure left it trapped in Earth’s orbit — where it has remained for more than half a century. It finally went down ...

One probe, renamed Kosmos 482, took a little more time to return ... Currently, based on extremely detailed modeling, the best estimate for where it fell is somewhere in the Indian Ocean. This is ...

The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to touch down on Venus. Because of a propulsion problem, it never escaped ...

Kosmos 482 was spotted over Germany at 0804 CEST (0604 UTC ... that re-entry was at 0624 UTC over the Indian Ocean, but added that the agency provided "no details on how they conclude that." Roscosmos ...

On Saturday, Russia's space agency, the Soviet spacecraft, fell back to Earth over the Indian Ocean. Last week, Dutch tracker Ralph van Dijk successfully captured a rare, high-resolution photo showing ...

The Kosmos 482 spacecraft made a reentry into Earth's atmosphere, splashing down in the Indian Ocean approximately 560 kilometres west of India's Middle Andaman Island. Varsha Agarwal Updated : May 12 ...

Tracked by various space agencies and individuals, the capsule crashed on May 10 somewhere in the Indian Ocean. On May 10, 2025 at 06:24 GMT, the remnants of the Kosmos 482 probe entered the Earth ...

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest ... Earth's atmosphere Saturday morning at 2:24 a.m. ET and landed in the Indian Ocean somewhere west of Jakarta, Indonesia.