The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 in 1972, one of a series of Venus missions. But it never made it ...

Kosmos 482, a 1,000 lb. former Soviet space probe, is currently expected to renter the Earth's atmosphere between May 8 and ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft, originally intended to land on Venus in the 1970s, is expected to soon crash uncontrollably back to ...

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We're likely less than two weeks from a former Soviet Union spacecraft re-entering Earth's atmosphere, but there's a problem: ...

A 50-year-old Russian spacecraft is crashing back down to Earth this month, but nobody knows where it will land.

The Soviet space program had a lot of hope riding on the Cosmos 482 mission when it launched in March 1972. The mission ...

Part of a failed Soviet spacecraft that’s been circling Earth for the last 53 years is about to come crashing down. The ...

Newly published images suggest that an unknown structure is trailing behind the Kosmos 482 probe on its descent to Earth. It ...

Kosmos 482 was launched in 1972, but will soon make an uncontrolled return to Earth. Here's where the defunct spacecraft may ...

A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 is due to come crashing back into Earth's atmosphere around May 10 and ...