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

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

Following the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, India has reopened 32 airports that were previously shut due to tensions between the two countries. The airports, located in Northern and Western ...

In Chile's Atacama Desert, the European Southern Observatory is constructing the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), poised to ...

A spacecraft that's been hanging around in orbit after a botched launch more than half a century ago has finally crashed back ...

NASA said on May 5 that Cosmos 482 will return to Earth sometime between May 7 and May 13. The spacecraft is most likely to begin its descent on May 10, though. The space agency said that since the ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft has plunged to Earth, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The half-ton ...

A 50-plus-year-old Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to return to Earth this weekend. Cosmos 482 was launched to space by the Soviet Union in March 1972, with the intent of landing on Venus to ...

The craft, which came to be known as Cosmos 482, was Venus-bound when it launched March 31, 1972, from a Kazakhstan spaceport, according to a NASA history. But it never escaped Earth’s gravity ...

The probe known as Cosmos 482 was meant to eventually sputter out ... "No need for major concern," McDowell concluded, "but you wouldn't want it bashing you on the head." ...