Now, the European Space Agency (ESA) has shared the final images of Kosmos ... The Kosmos 482 probe was made and launched by the USSR in 1972 as part of the Soviet Union's Venera program to ...

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 ...

Kosmos 482 performed an uncontrolled reentry on Saturday, May 10, plunging through Earth’s atmosphere around 2:24 a.m. ET, according to Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos. The Soviet-era ...

After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos ... a lonely Japanese space probe is the only vehicle orbiting Venus. Other proposed missions have faced delays ...

(Representative image) The Soviet Union launched Cosmos 482 on March 31, 1972. It was meant to be part of a Venus mission, following the successful Venera 8 probe ... Luna 10 became the first ...

An illustration of Soviet space probe Venera 5 or 6 the film, ‘The Storming of Venus’ from 1969. Credit: Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images “With a mass of just under 500 kg ...

Once again, the Soviet Union beat the U.S. in the space race with the successful launch of the Luna ... to these images, volcanoes and canyons — including one named after the probe, Valles ...

That title belongs to the Soviet Luna 3, launched in 1959 to study ... Voyager 1, launched by NASA in 1977, is a celebrated space probe designed to explore the outer Solar System and interstellar ...

In 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 -- known informally as Lunik 2 -- became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to land ... U.S. News // 3 hours ago Judge sets Menendez brothers' resentencing ...

In 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 -- known informally as Lunik 2 -- became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to land ... father suspected in killing his 3 young daughters June 4 (UPI ...

Galileo landed on Jupiter and became the first space probe to orbit an outer planet ... When the mission concluded in 2003, it was destroyed to prevent contaminating Europa. The Soviet Union stunned ...

Last year, India landed its first spacecraft, the Chandrayaan-3, on the moon around the same time Russia’s first lunar mission in decades ended in failure when its Luna 25 probe crashed ...