The advanced radar technology allows the satellite to see through clouds, rain, and even darkness, overcoming limitations ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within ...

The Virtual Telescope Project plans to stream the event live on YouTube. An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in a matter of hours. Talk ...

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus.

Venus has a crust that is all one piece, with no evidence of subduction caused by plate tectonics like on Earth.

The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 Venus lander fell back to Earth today (May 10), bringing a five-decade space odyssey to ...

The 50-plus-year-old spacecraft was trapped in Earth orbit for decades. Now, it has likely fallen back home, according to the ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft that never made it beyond Earth’s orbit on its way to Venus, is due to come crashing down on ...

The spacecraft was meant to go to Venus, but it never made it to the planet and is now expected to fall back to Earth.