Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft has plunged to Earth, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The half-ton ...

Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...

Cosmos 482, the exploratory spacecraft launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in March 1972, has finally ended its mission. The 50-year-old lander probe returned to Earth early Saturday ...

A probe launched from the Soviet Union more than five decades ago has plummeted back to Earth, splashing down in the Indian Ocean. Kosmos 482 had been bound for Venus but never reached its ...

It wouldn't be the first time, either. Back in 1978, a Soviet satellite spread radioactive debris across Canada's Far North You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if ...

In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its rocket-assisted toss to the cloud-veiled world. Major elements of that failed ...

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

a pioneering Soviet engineer who kick-started Soviet Union's early space adventure. The Russian leader was speaking to university students about the country's space policy when he mentioned the ...

But China is not the Soviet Union. It is not an isolated command economy, nor an empire straining under the weight of its military overreach. It is a globalized, tech-powered, civilizational state ...

Kosmos 482, launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 for a Venus mission, got stuck in Earth's orbit due to a rocket failure and never left. A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday ...