From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...

While other Venera spacecraft landed on Venus and managed to send back photos from the surface of the inhospitable, carbon dioxide-rich planet, Kosmos 482 failed to escape low Earth orbit after ...

Before NASA could send human astronauts into orbit ... technical problems saw the spacecraft soar to an altitude of 157 miles above Earth and reach a whopping speed of 5857 mph. Advert Somehow, NASA ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft has plunged to Earth, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The half-ton ...

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions for exploring the solar system.

A half-ton Soviet spacecraft that never made it to Venus 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend.

While that prediction was thankfully revised, the planet may have to worry about another object plummeting down from the heavens — a 1970s spacecraft called Kosmos 482. The Soviet-era spacecraft ...

In 1972, a Soviet spacecraft bound for Venus failed to escape Earth’s gravity and got stuck orbiting our planet. Now, 50-odd ...

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

A piece of space junk called Cosmos 482 is unlikely to pose a threat to people or property. But space experts say it ...