For the next few evenings, the waxing gibbous moon is already well up as skies darken. If you happen to see it, keep in mind ...

Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Allison Parshall filling in for Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week with a quick roundup of some of the latest ...

The defunct probe from the former Soviet Union, known as Kosmos 482, was launched in 1972 on a mission to explore Venus. A launch failure left it trapped in Earth’s orbit — where it has remained for ...

The Kosmos 482 probe was made and launched by the USSR in 1972 as part of the Soviet Union's Venera program to explore Venus. Of the 29 spacecraft launched towards Venus, just 16 reached the ...

shows the tumbling roll of Kosmos 482 as it falls through space. As for where it ended up, that is currently unknown and is likely to remain unknown, unless more data becomes available. "The ...

The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to touch down on Venus. Because of a propulsion problem, it never escaped ...

The landing spot of a failed Soviet spacecraft that came crashing down to Earth at the weekend has been revealed. Kosmos 482, was launched by the USSR in 1972 and once bound for Venus, but a badly ...