For 53 years, Kosmos 482 floated in Earth’s orbit, with gravity slowly pulling it towards its inevitable fate. In recent ...

A failed Venus mission fell from the sky over the weekend after aimlessly orbiting Earth for the past 53 years. Various ...

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

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

The spacecraft was launched as part of the Soviet Union’s ambitious Venera program towards the fag end of the Space Race in ...

The spacecraft, stuck in orbit since 1972 after an unsuccessful mission to Venus, plunged into the Indian Ocean.

The South Pacific nation's location and clear skies make it a good place to launch and monitor satellites from, with the European Space Agency among those keeping an eye on space from New Zealand.

When the Soviet Union launched an unmanned spacecraft called Kosmos 482 in March 1972, it was supposed to hurtle through space and travel all the way to Venus — 41 million miles away.

A Soviet spacecraft that has been circling Earth for over 50 years is set to reenter the planet’s atmosphere next month and could crash into Earth’s surface, according to EarthSky.org.