Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in the next few days ...

As the last remnant of the Soviet Venus program left in Earth’s orbit, Kosmos 482 is not your average piece of space junk ...

Punishing conditions in the clouds of Venus could be home to a DNA-like molecule capable of forming genes in life very ...

But the Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviets could attempt to ...

An out-of-control Soviet-era spacecraft will plummet back to Earth on Saturday, if the latest tracking predictions are ...

The part, which is from the Kosmos 482 mission, was supposed to land on Venus but could not as something went wrong with the ...

During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR launched 29 spacecraft towards Venus, the planet ...

After more than five decades silently orbiting our planet, a relic of the Cold War space race is making a dramatic and fiery ...

Venera 1 was launched in 1961, only four years after Sputnik 1, the first satellite. Venera 7, in 1970, was the first ...

A piece of space junk called Cosmos 482 is unlikely to pose a threat to people or property. But space experts say it ...