Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus atmosphere, it is possible that it will survive ...

The Soviet Union sent over a dozen probes to Venus, and what they found was shocking. Beneath the impenetrable clouds of our ...

After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the planet’s atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow time Saturday, according to Roscosmos, ...

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The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian Ocean early Saturday morning.

The Soviet space program post-1966 is somewhat of a cruel joke. It's as if the tragic, untimely death of Sergei Korolev in 1966 doomed the Soviet Space Program to endless failure from the N1 to the ...

A half-ton Soviet spacecraft that never made it to Venus 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend. Built to land on the solar system’s hottest planet, the titanium-covered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A failed Soviet-era spacecraft that became trapped in Earth’s orbit by mistake more than 50 years ago is expected to crash back ...

(CNN) — A Soviet-era spacecraft that was designed to make a soft landing on Venus — but instead remained trapped in Earth orbit for decades — likely fell from the sky early Saturday morning, according ...