Space debris re-enters Earth every day. But Russia's 1972 failed Venera mission probe Cosmos 482 is different.It was meant to land on Venus in 1972 at the height of the first space race. Now, 53 years ...

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Since its failed launch, the spacecraft's descent module — a heavy, durable object built to survive entry into Venus's atmosphere — has remained in orbit. It has been slowly descending toward Earth ...

A Soviet satellite once bound for Venus could be about to crash back down to earth after more than half a century in space.

What new technologies or methods can be developed for more efficient in-situ planetary subsurface analyses? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ...

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