A Soviet spacecraft launched in 1972 is falling back to Earth after 53 years. It is expected to enter the Earth’s atmosphere ...

Astronomers predict that the 500kg (1,100 lbs) landing module could hit the planet as early as this afternoon.

After a failed soviet union mission to venus 53 years ago the spacecraft has been left in orbit around earth since the early ...

Some recent spaceflight spectacles offer hints about what you might see if Kosmos 482 happens to fall through the sky above ...

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in the next few days ...

In 1972, a Soviet spacecraft bound for Venus failed to escape Earth’s gravity and got stuck orbiting our planet. Now, 50-odd ...

By Dean Murray An out-of-control Soviet spacecraft is set to crash into the Earth on Sunday morning - and it could hit the UK ...

Time was, the Soviet Union fairly owned Venus. From 1961 to 1983, the U.S.’s old space race rival launched 16 probes, Venera ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within days.

But the Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviets could attempt to ...

JONATHAN MCDOWELL, an astronomer at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who maintains a catalog of space objects, on the Kosmos-482, a half-ton Soviet-era craft which never made it to ...