The Soviet Union launched over a dozen probes to Venus—most successfully. But one never made it past Earth’s orbit and has, in fact, stayed there since 1972. Now, over 50 years later, the ...

WASHINGTON — A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its ...

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 ...

At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union built its own answer to NASA’s Space Shuttle. Massive, ambitious, and technologically advanced, Buran was designed to prove that the space race was far ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth’s atmosphere in the next few days after misfiring on a journey to Venus more than 50 years ago. On average, a ...

I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...

A Soviet spacecraft reentered Earth's atmosphere on Saturday, more than 50 years after its unsuccessful mission to Venus. The spacecraft Kosmos 482, launched in 1972, crashed into the Indian Ocean on ...

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A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European ...