The Soviet Union aimed for Venus, but hit the Indian Ocean instead The odyssey of the Soviet Union's failed attempt to reach ...

Debris from the 50 year-old probe Cosmos 482 crash-landed into the Indian Ocean over the weekend.

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.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is expected to peak May 5-6. May's full moon will arrive May 12. It will be a micromoon. Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft, is expected to fall back to Earth between May ...

UPDATE 05/12/25 8:50AM: Russian space agency Roscosmos has confirmed Kosmos 482 reentered Earth’s atmosphere at 2:24AM on May 10 before harmlessly splashing down in the Indian Ocean west of ...

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.

A Kosmos 482 spacecraft, built by the former Soviet Union, has been doing circles around our planet for more than 50 years after its original mission to fly to Venus was cut short by an equipment ...