The Soviet Venera probes were a series of spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union between the 1960s and 1980s to explore ...

A derelict Soviet-era spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 is set to hurtle back toward Earth after more than five decades in orbit. Newsweek contacted Russia's Roscosmos via email for comment on Wednesday.

A Cold War-era spacecraft is about to return to Earth, the final leg of its failed mission to explore one of our closest cosmic neighbors. Kosmos 482 was launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 to travel ...

A 50-plus-year-old Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to return to Earth this weekend. Cosmos 482 was launched to space by the Soviet Union in March 1972, with the intent of landing on Venus to conduct ...

Vladimir Putin's recent call for a new Russian authoritarianism -- and the near-total support the president's proposal enjoys at home -- should rattle not only Western diplomats but democratic ...