Part of a spacecraft that has been stuck in orbit for 53 years is due to reenter Earth’s atmosphere around May 10 and could ...

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

DPhil Shubham Kulkarni of the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford has provided a worst-case scenario if the ...

Scientists are keeping an eye on Kosmos 482, which is forecast to plunge back to Earth next week. We just don't know exactly ...

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

A defunct Soviet satelitte is slated to hurtle back to Earth next week, prompting concerns from space experts that we could ...

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

A space probe called Kosmos 482 sent to explore Venus by the U.S.S.R. in 1972 but marooned in Earth orbit ever since is about ...

A half-ton Russian satellite that was built to land on Venus but never left Earth’s orbit could fall out of the sky intact in ...

The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 Venus spacecraft is set to make a somewhat delayed reappearance as it slams into the ...

Kosmos 482, a spacecraft now heading towards Earth, was launched by the Soviets in 1972. The mission was intended for Venus.

In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus. While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached ...