Humanity lives to fight another day after the failed Soviet lander re-entered our atmosphere at 2:24AM ET on Saturday before ...

A spacecraft that's been hanging around in orbit after a botched launch more than half a century ago has finally crashed back ...

The Soviet Union aimed for Venus, but hit the Indian Ocean instead The odyssey of the Soviet Union's failed attempt to reach ...

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian ...

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 ...

A potentially destructive Soviet Venus lander that was lost in space for over half a century has reentered the Earth's ...

Cosmos (or Kosmos) 482's orbit has slowly brought it closer to our planet since 1972, and now it's on the cusp of plummeting back to its home world.

A Soviet-era spacecraft called Kosmos 482 crashed into the Earth, after days of speculation, the Russian space agency ...

Where did the Russian probe Kosmos 482 fall? Designed to reach Venus, where it never arrived, the Soviet Roskomos probe ...

Kosmos 482 was launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union’s Venera program, which aimed to explore Venus. The ...

The 53-year-old Cold War-era Soviet spaceship, initially bound for Venus, fell into the sea after entering Earth.

The Kosmos-482 spacecraft, launched in 1972, ceased to exist, leaving orbit and falling into the Indian Ocean." According to calculations by specialists "from TsNIIMash (part of Roscosmos), the ...