The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian ...

The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred ...

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall back to our planet. Exactly where or when it will strike, however, remains ...

Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's storied Venera program of Venus exploration. The probe launched toward the second planet from the sun in 1972 but never got there; its rocket suffered an ...

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 will conclude its roughly 50-year jaunt through Earth's orbit this weekend, with experts predicting it could crash back to our planet as soon as tonight ...

The Kosmos 482 spacecraft, a Soviet spacecraft that was launched in 1972 on an unsuccessful trip to Venus, fell back into Earth on Saturday morning.

Kosmos 482 crashed into Earth on May 10, confirmed Roscosmos. The spacecraft reentered at 2:24 am ET, falling into the Indian Ocean. Launched in 1972, it malfunctioned and remained in orbit for 53 ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within ...

After over five decades in Earth's orbit, the Soviet Venus lander ... the precise impact site of Kosmos 482 is somewhat disputed. Different space agencies and tracking stations estimated ...

What is the Soviet-era spacecraft, Cosmos 482? Cosmos 482 – also referred to ... the spacecraft was instead left stranded – earning it the Soviet "Kosmos" designation for any craft that made it to ...

Kosmos 482, launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 for a Venus mission, got stuck in Earth's orbit due to a rocket failure and never left. A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than ...