This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European Space Agency (Esa). It has launched spectacularly ...

More than 50 years ago in the early 1960s, the Soviet space program embarked on a bold new undertaking to go where no human had gone before.

The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to ...

A Soviet Venera-4 model, similar to the lost Kosmos 482 landing capsule ... presented as a GIF farther down in this story, helped the European Space Agency track the probe in its final hours ...

Failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 came crashing back down to Earth after more than half a century in space - and scientists have now confirmed where it ended up ...

In recent weeks, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 has been making an ... that it would land over a populated era. Now, the European Space Agency and others say the spacecraft has most likely ...

The spacecraft, dubbed Kosmos 482, had orbited the Earth since it launched in March 1972. It followed the Soviet Venera 8 ...

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

And according to the European Space Agency's Space Debris Office, Kosmos 482 was last spotted over Germany before disappearing from radar, leading the office to conclude that reentry probably ...

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