The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to ...

The Soviet Union aimed for Venus, but hit the Indian Ocean instead The odyssey of the Soviet Union's failed attempt to reach ...

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

A failed Venus mission fell from the sky over the weekend after aimlessly orbiting Earth for the past 53 years. Various ...

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

Humanity lives to fight another day after the failed Soviet lander re-entered our atmosphere at 2:24AM ET on Saturday before ...

Russia's space agency says a Soviet spacecraft fell back to Earth Saturday morning over the Indian Ocean. It was originally headed to Venus, but instead spent more than 50 years orbiting Earth.

A potentially destructive Soviet Venus lander that was lost in space for over half a century has reentered the Earth's ...

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus.

A Soviet-era spacecraft called Kosmos 482 has crashed on earth after 53 years "stuck in orbit," according to The Associated ...

The probe's return to Earth had been closely monitored by multiple space agencies, including the European Space Agency (ESA) ...