This story was updated to reflect the most current prediction. In 1972, the Soviet Union launched the Kosmos 482 lander, a ...

Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's storied Venera program of Venus exploration. The probe launched toward the second ...

The Kosmos 482 capsule was built tough for Venus. Its fall to Earth will make a huge fireball and may pose a small risk of ...

Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.

NASA scientists say a 1972 probe launched by the Soviet Union may meet a fiery end crashing back into Earth in the coming ...

Kosmos 482, a Venus probe launched by the Soviet Union in 1972, is expected to fall to Earth this weekend. Stay up to date on ...

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions ...

Debris from the 50 year-old probe Cosmos 482 crash-landed into the Indian Ocean over the weekend.

A Soviet-era spacecraft has plunged to Earth, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The half-ton ...

The Virtual Telescope Project aims to observe the anticipated reentry of the former Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 spacecraft as ...

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

The Space Age past may come knocking on the world's door next week as the defunct Soviet Union's Kosmos 482 Venus lander from ...