A piece of Soviet-era space debris is expected to crash land down to Earth this weekend. The Russian Kosmos 482 spacecraft launched in 1972 could come plunging down some time between Friday and Sunday ...

A Cold War-era spacecraft is about to return to Earth, the final leg of its failed mission to explore one of our closest cosmic neighbors. Kosmos 482 was launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 to travel ...

A failed Soviet spacecraft is due to crash back down to Earth tomorrow after being stuck in space for 53 years. In 1972, the USSR launched the Kosmos 482 lander, a spacecraft destined for Venus.

If everything had gone to plan, an uncrewed Soviet-era spacecraft would have landed on Venus in 1972 to conduct a few hours of operations before dying for good. The probe known as Cosmos 482 was meant ...

The last piece of a Russian spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 had been making an uncontrolled approach towards Earth for several weeks, and it may have just crashed somewhere on the planet. Experts have ...

It's been floating above our planet for more than 50 years. But a satellite operated by the Soviets is finally set to crash back down to Earth next week – potentially on an inhabited area. Kosmos 482, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. On May 10 of this year, the egg-shaped Kosmos-482 descent module, weighing roughly 1,091 pounds ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft has smashed into Earth, more than half a century after it was launched to go to Venus - but scientists don't know where it is. The European Union Space Surveillance and ...

The recent fall to Earth of a failed Soviet Venus probe from the 1970s has become a detective story of sorts. Different computer models were used to predict the reentry. But why were they divergent, ...