Cosmos 482 was launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union but soon broke up into pieces, some of which remained in space for 53 ...

After spending more than five decades in orbit, the final piece of Soviet rocket Cosmos 482 has finally crash-landed on Earth ...

A Soviet satellite once bound for Venus has crashed landed back on Earth after more than half a century in space. The Kosmos ...

If you're not justifiably mad at outer space right now (see: Katy Perry, Elon, rampant inequality here on Planet Earth), ...

From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...

The Earth also collides with space rocks, called meteors, that show up as shooting stars in the night sky. Some of these meteors come from an impact that struck Mars at some point, breaking away rock ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in the next few days ...

Hold onto your sense of balance. Scientists have found fresh proof that Earth doesn't just drift through space — sometimes, ...