Cosmos 482, launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1972 with a destination of Venus, malfunctioned and has been in ...

Just a few weeks after its 53rd launch anniversary, Cosmos 482 is expected to descend back to Earth's atmosphere between ...

Cosmos 482, part of a Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus in the 1970s, is expected to crash back on Earth ...

The time part or all of the dead probe is expected to impact Earth continues to narrow in on Friday overnight into Saturday ...

Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft known as Cosmos 482 may return to Earth this week, more than 50 years after it embarked on a ...

The 50-plus-year-old spacecraft was trapped in Earth orbit for decades. Now, it has likely fallen back home, according to the ...

But if the Cosmos 482 object is indeed a Soviet reentry capsule ... was formed in the mid-1960s amid the 20th-century space ...

Ownership of Cosmos 482 probably devolved from the Soviet Union to Russia upon dissolution of that superpower, Lawrence said, though it is possible that other governments might be interested in ...

Cosmos 482 was one in a pair of identical Venus atmospheric ... according to NASA. The Soviet Union's planetary missions involved putting vehicles into what's referred to as an Earth parking ...

Cosmos 482 was launched to space by the Soviet Union in March 1972, with the intent of landing on Venus to conduct scientific measurements. However, an apparent engine malfunction kept the ...