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 ...

This event highlights the growing concern of space junk and its potential safety and environmental risks ... Kosmos 482's return to Earth is a timely reminder of the increasing number of space ...

Earth has a growing space junk problem, with three sizable pieces of debris crashing onto our planet every day. To combat ...

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 ...

According to published news stories, sometime in the next week Kosmos 482 will be entering ... not to mention the many risks on land. There have been more space flights in recent years, so we ...

A Soviet spacecraft, Kosmos 482, launched in 1972, is predicted to re-enter Earth's atmosphere soon. Originally intended for Venus, a rocket failure left it orbiting Earth. While most of the 500 ...

There is no record of any individual being killed by space debris. In a blog post on Kosmos-482, ESA officials stated that “The risk of any satellite reentry causing injury is extremely remote.” ...

There’s no record of space debris ever causing a human fatality. “The risk of any satellite reentry causing injury is extremely remote,” ESA officials wrote in a blog post about Kosmos 482.

The European Union Space Surveillance ... by spacecraft debris were exceedingly low, scientists said. Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series ...

Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.

While space debris trackers around the world converged in their forecasts, it was still too soon to know exactly when and where the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 would come down. That uncertainty ...

While space debris trackers around the world converged in their forecasts, it was still too soon to know exactly when and where the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 would come down. That uncertainty ...