There is a small chance the space probe might survive the reentry when most space objects disintegrate upon entering the ...

Known as the flower moon, May's full moon will reach peak illumination at 12:56 p.m. ET on Monday, May 12, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac. May's full moon will be a micromoon, which is when the ...

A Cold War-era Soviet spacecraft is set to crash back to Earth next month - and could land in Britain. Kosmos 482, which has ...

An old Soviet probe built to explore Venus is about to crash to Earth after 53 years, conducted in low Earth orbit.

A Soviet spaceship which took off for Venus in 1972 - but a failed launch left it circling lifelessly above us - is finally ...

In March 1972, the Soviet Union sent up a probe to explore the planet Venus. It was a failure. Kosmos 482 never escaped low ...

A long-lost Soviet spacecraft the size of a car is now hurtling toward Earth, set to make a fiery, uncontrolled re-entry within days - and no one knows where it will land. Known as Kosmos 482, the ...

A COLD War era Soviet spaceship destined for Venus is set to crash back to Earth, and it could hit the UK. Kosmos 482 took ...

The spacecraft suffered an engine anomaly that left it stuck in Earth's orbit for decades, and now it's slated for an ...

Typically, the risk to populated areas is low, with debris more likely to fall into remote regions of the ocean.

In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached ...

The latest projections peg the 1,000-pound spacecraft’s reentry between May 8 and May 11. A complicating factor is that ...