Cosmos 482, launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1972 with a destination of Venus, malfunctioned and has been in ...

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 ...

A wayward Soviet spacecraft, adrift for more than half a century, will fall to Earth on Friday or Saturday, astronomers said.

Cosmos 482, part of a Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus in the 1970s, is expected to crash back on Earth ...

Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft known as Cosmos 482 may return to Earth this week, more than 50 years after it embarked on a ...

But if the Cosmos 482 object is indeed a Soviet reentry capsule ... 1960s amid the 20th-century space race, which pitted the Soviet Union against its chief space-exploring competitor, the United ...

Cosmos 482 was one in a pair of identical Venus atmospheric ... according to NASA. The Soviet Union's planetary missions involved putting vehicles into what's referred to as an Earth parking ...