For 53 years, Kosmos 482 floated in Earth’s orbit, with gravity slowly pulling it towards its inevitable fate. In recent ...

The Kosmos 482 spacecraft, a Soviet mission launched in 1972 for an unsuccessful trip to Venus, reentered Earth’s atmosphere ...

An out-of-control Russian spacecraft has probably plummeted to Earth, after 53 years stuck in orbit, experts say. In recent ...

More than 50 years ago in the early 1960s, the Soviet space program embarked on a bold new undertaking to go where no human ...

It's still quite uncertain just where and when the craft will fall, although it is expected to reenter around 2:26 am ET on ...

The probe is projected to crash between between 52° North and 52° South - a big span of the Earth that just includes a ...

The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed Kosmos 482 landed back on Earth based on analysis.

As of Friday evening (May 9), the European Space Agency (ESA) predicts that Kosmos 482's time of reentry will be 06:37 UTC (7 ...

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

The spacecraft, dubbed Kosmos 482, had orbited the Earth since it launched in March 1972. It followed the Soviet Venera 8 ...