The spacecraft suffered an engine anomaly that left it stuck in Earth's orbit for decades, and now it's slated for an ...

A Venus lander launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 has been predicted to fall back to Earth some time in May.

A COLD War era Soviet spaceship destined for Venus is set to crash back to Earth, and it could hit the UK. Kosmos 482 took ...

A five-decade old spacecraft meant to explore Venus is likely to fall back to Earth next month. This spacecraft is an old ...

A Soviet spaceship which took off for Venus in 1972 - but a failed launch left it circling lifelessly above us - is finally ...

Typically, the risk to populated areas is low, with debris more likely to fall into remote regions of the ocean.

In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached ...

The latest projections peg the 1,000-pound spacecraft’s reentry between May 8 and May 11. A complicating factor is that ...

A long-lost Soviet spacecraft the size of a car is now hurtling toward Earth, set to make a fiery, uncontrolled re-entry within days - and no one knows where it will land. Known as Kosmos 482, the ...

The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a ...

Venus will be at its brightest in the morning sky — just 67 days after it was at its brightest in the evening sky. Here's why ...