The Soviet Union launched a number of missions to explore Venus – this probe was from an earlier flight Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft is likely to have re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after ...

482 descent craft—originally designed to land on Venus—reentered Earth's atmosphere this week after spending 53 years in orbit due to a failed launch in 1972. The European Union’s Space ...

An illustration of a satellite crashing into the ocean after an uncontrolled reentry through Earth's atmosphere. A similar fate is expected to await the Soviet Kosmos 482 probe, which could fall ...

We're less than a week from a former Soviet Union spacecraft re-entering Earth's atmosphere, but there's a problem: nobody knows where it's going to land – and it looks like it's going to land ...

A study by NASA and Japan's Toho University has revealed that the atmosphere will lose its ability to sustain life as we know it today ina certain period of time. The study was led by two ...

That’s because it’s a “micromoon” — a full moon at its farthest point from Earth. This event ... moon illusion and a light-scattering effect known as Rayleigh scattering, which makes ...

NASA predicts the decaying probe could reenter Earth's atmosphere anytime before Tuesday, May 13. However, the spacecraft is most likely to begin its descent Saturday, May 10. One calculation ...

A Soviet Venus probe that launched in 1972 and has been stuck orbiting Earth for 53 years is set to fall back to our planet this weekend. The craft is set to finally re-enter the atmosphere at around ...

One calculation from the federally-funded Virginia-based Aerospace Corp., which tracks space debris, predicts the probe reentering Earth's atmosphere at 1:54 a.m. ET Saturday, May 10. The ESA ...