Kosmos-482, which was headed to Venus, is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere by the end of this weekend. Experts don’t yet know where it may come down. By Nadia Drake A robotic Soviet ...

The remaining payload in orbit weighs in at 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds); for context ... Be sure to catch sight of Kosmos-482 while you can, as a piece of space history lights up an increasingly ...

It will be traveling at approximately 150 mph (242 km/h). While its intriguing history has earned the lander media attention, Kosmos 482 is just one of more than 1.2 million pieces of space junk ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... In recent weeks, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 has been making an uncontrolled approach towards Earth.

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a ...

Update for 8:30 a.m. ET on May 10: Kosmos 482 has fallen harmlessly into the Indian Ocean west of Indonesia, according to according to Russia's space agency Roscosmos. In 1972, the Soviet Union ...

The object — part of the Kosmos-482 spacecraft that launched 53 years ago — crashed to Earth at around 9:24 a.m. Moscow time (2:24 a.m. ET) on Saturday, according to the Russian space agency ...

The Russian space agency Roscosmos reports that the impact of the Soviet probe Kosmos 482 occurred in the Indian Ocean. The descent, Roscosmos writes on its social media, was monitored by its ...