Most of us are used to seeing Earth from the Northern Hemisphere because this half of the globe is home to 68 per cent of the planet's land.

Soviet spacecraft plunging back to Earth 53 years after launching Just weeks ago, scientists warned that a "city killer" asteroid had a small chance of hitting Earth. While that prediction was ...

A Soviet spacecraft launched a half-century ago called Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades and is at last expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere this coming weekend.

Venera 8 was launched on March 27, 1972, and reached Venus 117 days later. On March 31, its twin left Earth but failed to escape Earth orbit, earning the designation Kosmos 482.

A Soviet spacecraft that's been stuck in low Earth orbit ever since it launched in 1972 has finally crashed back down to our planet. Kosmos 482 rocketed into space more than 50 years ago on a ...

Different computer models were used to predict the reentry of the 1970s-era Soviet Venus craft Kosmos-482. Why were they divergent, and how can we improve our debris-fall forecasts?