A Soviet-era spacecraft, Kosmos 482, launched in 1972, made an uncontrolled reentry into Earth's atmosphere after a failed Venus mission. While Russian authorities indicated it fell into the ...

Launched in 1972, it malfunctioned and remained in orbit for 53 years. After days of speculation, Soviet-era spacecraft Kosmos 482 crashed into Earth on Saturday (May 10), Russia's space agency ...

A car-sized piece of Soviet rocket has crashed back through the atmosphere, after 53 years in orbit. Scientists haven't yet pinpointed its location but one organisation has predicted it had re ...

Kosmos 482, launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 for a Venus mission, got stuck in Earth's orbit due to a rocket failure and never left. A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than half a century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by the Russian space agency Roscosmos and ...

After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the planet’s atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow time Saturday, according to ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft, could crash on Saturday after being trapped in Earth's orbit for more than 50 years. Here's when and where it could crash. An out-of-control Soviet-era ...

The Soviet Union launched a number of missions to explore Venus – this probe was from an earlier flight Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft is likely to have re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after ...

May 10 (UPI) --A Soviet-area spacecraft that orbited Earth for more than 50 years crashed into the Indian Ocean on Saturday, Russian officials confirmed. "The Kosmos-482 spacecraft, launched in ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its uncontrolled ...