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 ...

Deep within the Baikonur Cosmodrome lies a haunting sight—abandoned Soviet space shuttles, once symbols of Cold War ambition and cutting-edge engineering. This video explores the rise and fall of the ...

A defunct Soviet probe designed to land on Venus will have an uncontrolled reentry this month and pieces of it may make it to Earth's surface.

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

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian ...

Russian astronaut Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov lost his life falling from space after faults with his spacecraft ...

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is expected to make a crash landing on Earth around May 9–10, 2025. Due to a ...

which pitted the Soviet Union against its chief space-exploring competitor, the United States. The IKI’s Venera program sent a series of probes toward Venus in the 1970s and ‘80s, with several ...

Strausbaugh reexamines the familiar topic of the Soviet Union’s initial lead in the space race with the United States, an advantage that lasted from 1957, with the launch of Sputnik, the first ...

Vostok-1, the first manned spaceship, landed empty, as Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made an early exit via parachute and touched down a few kilometers away. AFP/Getty Images The “space race ...

The Russians have big ambitions for their space program. They are planning a new space station to replace their share of the International Space Station when it ends its operational life around 2030.