A stadium-sized asteroid will pass by Earth today (May 9). Scientists say the "potentially hazardous" 950ft-wide space rock - ...

But the Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviets could attempt to ...

A stadium-sized asteroid will pass by Earth today ... 11 times the average distance between Earth and the Moon." They add: "The asteroid's orbit around the Sun sees it safely pass Earth several ...

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

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

"As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus ... sun in 1972 but never got there; its rocket suffered an anomaly, stranding Kosmos 482 in an elliptical orbit around ...

Cosmos 482, the Soviet probe that was supposed to land on Venus but ended up stuck in Earth's orbit for decades ... the expected" during an anticipated pass at 3:32 am ET. They concluded that ...

A piece of Soviet hardware built to survive the burning, crushing environment of Venus will ... land anywhere between 52 degrees North latitude and 52 degrees South latitude. However, he has also ...

Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.

A bright Moon dominates the sky, passing two bright stars as Juno reaches opposition and Mercury dips toward the horizon in ...