Cosmos 482 was launched from the USSR's spaceport in 1972 in what is now Kazakhstan - intended for Venus it broke into ...

Each cloud represents in visible form (due to water droplets) a rising column of air,” the Earth Observatory says. NASA/Earth Observatory A blast from the past will be hitting Earth next week, as a ...

A defunct Soviet -era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is poised for an uncontrolled descent back to Earth.

A Soviet-era spacecraft, Kosmos 482, initially intended for Venus, is set to reenter Earth's atmosphere unpredictably.

Catch some morning meteors, see the Moon reach First Quarter, and watch Mars visit the Beehive in the sky this week.

A failed Soviet-era spacecraft that was meant to land on Venus is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere some time this month ...

A space probe called Kosmos 482 sent to explore Venus by the U.S.S.R. in 1972 but marooned in Earth orbit ever since is about ...

We wrote about this doomed mission in 2019, and the prospects for reentry. Launched on a Molniya-8K78M rocket from the ...

Separately, the planet Venus, which does not have plate tectonics like Earth, has evidence of these lithospheric foundering events, and by understanding the process on Earth, we can start to apply ...