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 ...

DPhil Shubham Kulkarni of the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford has provided a worst-case scenario if the ...

Newly published images suggest that an unknown structure is trailing behind the Kosmos 482 probe on its descent to Earth. It ...

A 50-year-old Russian spacecraft is crashing back down to Earth this month, but nobody knows where it will land.

A defunct Soviet satelitte is slated to hurtle back to Earth next week, prompting concerns from space experts that we 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 ...

A space probe called Kosmos 482 sent to explore Venus by the U.S.S.R. in 1972 but marooned in Earth orbit ever since is about ...

Part of a failed Soviet spacecraft that’s been circling Earth for the last 53 years is about to come crashing down. The ...

A half-ton Russian satellite that was built to land on Venus but never left Earth’s orbit could fall out of the sky intact in ...

This sort of failure would repeat itself during the failed Phobos-Grunt mission, which crashed back to Earth on January 15 th ...

Kosmos 482, a spacecraft now heading towards Earth, was launched by the Soviets in 1972. The mission was intended for Venus.

Part of a spacecraft that launched in 1972 and has been orbiting Earth for 53 years is due to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in ...