A Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to launch to Venus more than 50 years ago plunged to Earth on Saturday. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed the spacecraft – known as ...

A probe launched from the Soviet Union more than five decades ago has plummeted back to Earth, splashing down in the Indian Ocean. Kosmos 482 had been bound for Venus but never reached its ...

May 2 (UPI) --A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 is due to come crashing back into Earth's atmosphere around May 10 and nobody knows where it will land. The Kosmos 482 mission ...

Launched way back in 1972, Kosmos-482 is about to meet a fiery end. It's one straight out of the history books. After more than 50 years in space, the late Soviet Union's Kosmos-482 mission is set ...

"My dad was shot down over the Soviet Union," Gary says. "As a kid I thought it was normal, everybody's dad goes through this." In the thick of the Cold War, an American spy plane flew over ...

In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its rocket-assisted toss to the cloud-veiled world. Major elements of that failed ...

Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...

There are a total of eight sheet music pages in the estate. Luckily, they will always appear in the same rooms. As you look over the lyrics, you’ll realize that the music pages contain a hidden ...

Betrayed by their purported “allies” and left reeling by the lighting war conducted against them, the Soviet Union found itself on the backfoot as Nazi troops and tanks sped into the Soviet ...

SOHONIE: There was kind of a movement in the Soviet Union to liberalize the arts, in a sense. EISENBERG: This was maybe the first time that music didn't have to be overtly ideological. That was ...