Part of a spacecraft that has been stuck in orbit for 53 years is due to reenter Earth’s atmosphere around May 10 and could ...

Scientists are keeping an eye on Kosmos 482, which is forecast to plunge back to Earth next week. We just don't know exactly ...

The spacecraft was designed to survive falling through Venus's atmosphere. 53 years after launch, it's coming back.

A Soviet spacecraft launched in the 1970s for a mission to Venus is now expected to make an uncontrolled return to Earth, ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth ...

Launched in March 1972 by the USSR, the Kosmos 482 probe was dispatched to gather data from Venus’ inhospitable surface, Livescience reported. However, due to a malfunction with one of the ...

For the past fifty-three years the Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has been orbiting around Earth having never made it to its destination, Venus. However, its days floating around the planet may be ...

A defunct Soviet spacecraft, Kosmos 482, launched over 50 years ago in a mission gone awry, is expected to make an ...

We wrote about this doomed mission in 2019, and the prospects for reentry. Launched on a Molniya-8K78M rocket from the ...