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 spacecraft, called Kosmos 482 (also known as Cosmos 482), was launched in 1972 and once bound for Venus, but a malfunction meant it never left Earth's orbit. Because the lander was designed to ...