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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 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 probe known as Cosmos 482 ... to track the probe's descent, which could come within a matter of hours. What is the Soviet-era spacecraft, Cosmos 482? Cosmos 482 – also referred to as Kosmos ...

A 'ground track' map showing the latest predictions on where the Kosmos 482 Venus probe could fall to Earth on May 9 or May 10. | Credit: ESA/ESOC Space Debris Office Update for 3 p.m. ET on May 9 ...