The Venus probe, which never made it to its intended destination, has been in Earth’s orbit for more than 50 years. Now it’s ...

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

Experts note that, while such re-entries are rare, they show the need for continued vigilance in tracking objects in Earth's orbit. Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's Venera program between ...

In recent weeks, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 has been making an uncontrolled approach towards Earth. Experts have been tracking it since – though they noted that it was very unlikely ...

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 will conclude its roughly 50-year ... a Colorado-based space technology company that's also been tracking the craft, predicts an even narrower reentry ...

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 ...

A small, unmanned Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to fall back to Earth sometime Friday night or Saturday morning. When it launched in March 1972, the spacecraft Kosmos 482 was slated for a 41 ...

The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft known as Kosmos-482 in 1972, one of a series of Venus missions. But it never made it out of Earth's orbit because of a rocket malfunction. Most of it came ...

The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its uncontrolled ... Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound ...

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 ...