Chronicling nearly four decades of activity, this feature examines the rise and fall of the KGB as the Soviet Union’s core intelligence force. The story begins with its brutal predecessors and evolves ...

A remnant of the Soviet Venus program, Kosmos 482 has stayed aloft in in Earth's orbit for 53 years. But it may make a return ...

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

A Soviet Venus probe that launched in 1972 and has been stuck orbiting Earth for 53 years is set to fall back to our planet this weekend. The craft is set to finally re-enter the atmosphere at around ...

Cosmos 482, part of a Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus in the 1970s, is expected to crash back on Earth ...

“But it cannot be completely excluded.” The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 in 1972, one of a series of Venus missions. But it never made it out of Earth orbit because ...

The 1,100-pound module, known as Kosmos 482, was part of a craft bound for Venus when it launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the then-Soviet Union in March 1972, NASA said in a statement Friday.

In about a week or so, a three foot (one meter) module from the failed Soviet-era spacecraft Kosmos 482 will be reentering our atmosphere uncontrolled. What happens next is anyone's guess: Will it ...

More than 50 years ago, a Soviet mission to Venus failed, and now the capsule will crash uncontrollably to Earth and probably not burn up. In a few days, a failed Venus probe from the Soviet Union ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Thousands of people gathered for rallies and a march in Chicago on May Day. It is a movement that was started in Chicago. The local event was just one of many similar events ...