President Trump today unveiled an ambitious plan to shield America from missile attack by building what he describes as a ...

The USSR’s vision for space dominance took a wild turn with the design of an enormous ground-effect aircraft capable of launching spacecraft straight from the ocean. Combining elements of sea-based ...

Richard Garwin’s role in designing the hydrogen bomb was obscured from the public, even his family, as he advised presidents ...

Debris from the 50 year-old probe Cosmos 482 crash-landed into the Indian Ocean over the weekend.

The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to ...

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine ...

And they saw that the West cheered capitalism more than democracy. And since they got the worst form of capitalism and the ...

Russia's space agency says a Soviet spacecraft fell back to Earth Saturday morning over the Indian Ocean. It was originally headed to Venus, but instead spent more than 50 years orbiting Earth.

(J. Greaves/Cardiff University/JAXA via AP) A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by ...

Cosmos 482 was launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union but soon broke up into pieces, some of which remained in space for 53 ...

A failed Soviet-era spacecraft that became trapped in Earth’s orbit by mistake more than 50 years ago is expected to make a ...