This event marks the end of the spacecraft’s 53-year journey through space, which started as a failed mission but became a significant historical anomaly in space exploration. The Kosmos 482 ...

The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred ...

By Nadia Drake A robotic Soviet spacecraft has been adrift in space for 53 years. It will return to Earth before the weekend is over. Kosmos-482 launched in March 1972. If all had gone well ...

Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft is likely to have re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after being stuck in orbit for more than ...

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall back to our planet. Exactly where or when it will strike, however, remains ...

The Kosmos 482 spacecraft, a Soviet spacecraft that was launched in 1972 on an unsuccessful trip to Venus, fell back into Earth on Saturday morning.

Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's storied Venera program of Venus exploration. The probe launched toward the second planet from the sun in 1972 but never got there; its rocket suffered an ...

It is currently anticipated that a spacecraft from the Soviet Union that was launched in the 1970s would crash back to Earth.

Where will the failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 land when it crashes back to Earth in the coming week? Most major cities ...

An out-of-control Russian spacecraft has probably plummeted to Earth, after 53 years stuck in orbit, experts say.

The spacecraft’s expected area of reentry spans vast regions on both sides of the equator, where it could potentially land in a single piece.