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

Kosmos 482 was launched by the then-Soviet Union in 1972 as part of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one never ...

A half-ton spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend.

A car-sized piece of Soviet rocket has crashed back through the atmosphere, after 53 years in orbit. "It's a half-tonne thing falling out of the sky at a couple of hundred miles an hour.

A car-sized piece of Soviet rocket has crashed back through the atmosphere, after 53 years in orbit. Scientists haven't yet pinpointed its location but one organisation has predicted it had re ...

The rocket was designed to serve as a "heavy-lift expendable launch system" and booster for the Soviet Buran space shuttle - the Soviet version of Nasa aircraft. In 1993, a prototype of the rocket ...

Author shares an anecdote about a fake Soviet rocket that lieutenants made as a prank in 1957 during the race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to launch an ICBM. DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST ...

Ukraine has put US-supplied rocket artillery systems to effective use against Russian forces. Modern rocket artillery, like the HIMARS in use in Ukraine, have a long history on the battlefield.

But all such hopes were dispelled by the powerful explosion of the rocket five seconds after launch…the failure has put us back another one or one-and-a-half years....” The Soviet equivalent ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday ... But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a rocket malfunction. Much of the spacecraft came tumbling back ...