The time part or all of the dead probe is expected to impact Earth continues to narrow in on Friday overnight into Saturday ...

Just a few weeks after its 53rd launch anniversary, Cosmos 482 is expected to descend back to Earth's atmosphere between ...

Cosmos (or Kosmos) 482's orbit has slowly brought it closer to our planet since 1972, and now it's on the cusp of plummeting ...

Cosmos 482 launched in 1972 with the intent of landing on Venus for scientific measurements until an apparent engine malfunction made arrival unfeasible. Since the engines failed to reach a ...

Cosmos 482 launched in 1972 with the intent of landing on Venus for scientific measurements until an apparent engine ...

Much about the piece of space debris, called Cosmos 482 (also spelled Kosmos 482), is unknown. Though most projections estimate that the object will reenter the atmosphere around May 10 ...

The Cosmos 482 spacecraft, believed to be a piece of a larger probe, has been orbiting Earth for more than 50 years. Now, astronomers expect that it could be just a matter of days before debris ...

NASA predicts the decaying probe could reenter Earth's atmosphere within a week. Cosmos 482 was one in a pair of identical Venus atmospheric lander probes that launched in 1972. Part of a Soviet ...