The 50-plus-year-old spacecraft has been trapped in Earth orbit for decades. Now, it’s expected to fall back home.

A Soviet-era spacecraft has plunged to Earth more than half a century after its failed launch to Venus. Russia says it landed ...

While space debris trackers around the world converged in their forecasts, it was still too soon to know exactly when and ...

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

After 50 years, the Soviet Union's Kosmos 482 Descent Craft, intended for Venus, made an uncontrolled re-entry into Earth's ...

A Soviet spacecraft, Kosmos 482, fell into the Indian Ocean on Saturday morning, 53 years after it failed to reach Venus, ...

Cosmos-482, a failed probe to Venus launched in 1972. Russia’s space agency figures it came down Saturday over the Indian ...

A spacecraft built like a tank that was supposed to study Venus has likely crashed back to Earth Saturday morning, decades ...

A piece of space junk called Cosmos 482 is unlikely to pose a threat to people or property. But space experts say it ...

After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the planet's atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow time Saturday, according to Roscosmos, ...

It's too early to know where the half-ton mass of metal might come down or how much of it will survive reentry.