When she heard the news of Nazi Germany surrendering 80 years ago, Valentina Efremova couldn’t believe the devastating war ...

A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 is due to come crashing back into Earth's atmosphere around May 10 and ...

The Ilyushin IL-76MD (NATO reporting name: Candid-B) is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan military strategic ...

In May 1960 an American U-2 spy plane flew over Russian missile sites. The US thought it was beyond the reach of Soviet air ...

The soon-to-reenter Soviet Cosmos 482 Venus probe is getting increased attention by satellite trackers – and new imagery ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth.

Kosmos 482 —originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera program to explore Venus—is ...

We wrote about this doomed mission in 2019, and the prospects for reentry. Launched on a Molniya-8K78M rocket from the ...

In late March 1972, the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 was launched. But that attempted Venus probe ran amuck during its ...

The spacecraft was designed to survive falling through Venus's atmosphere. 53 years after launch, it's coming back.

China is not the new Soviet Union. And this is not 1955. It is 2025. And the future will not follow the path of the past.