Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft known as Cosmos 482 may return to Earth this week, more than 50 years after it embarked on a ...

Cosmos 482, part of a Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus in the 1970s, is expected to crash back on Earth ...

Launched in 1972, Kosmos 482 was intended to land on the surface of Venus, but an engine malfunction left it stranded in ...

Small companies are producing parts for constructing rockets using 3D printing, a technology that has potential to shake up ...

This is the first time anyone in the United States has flown a reusable hypersonic rocket plane since the last flight of the ...

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

Kosmos 482 launched for Venus in 1972 but never left Earth orbit. The spacecraft has now lost enough energy that it can’t fight gravity anymore.

In a remarkable move—at least for Russian military doctrine—the engineers at Uralvagonzavod built the Vepr around the ...

Venera 1 was launched in 1961, only four years after Sputnik 1, the first satellite. Venera 7, in 1970, was the first spacecraft to successfully soft-land instead of crashing on a planet. Vega 2 was ...