A 50-plus-year-old Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to return to Earth this weekend. Cosmos 482 was launched to space by the Soviet Union in March 1972, with the intent of landing on Venus to conduct ...

Cosmos 482, the exploratory spacecraft launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in March 1972, has finally ended its mission. The 50-year-old lander probe returned to Earth early Saturday, May 10, ...

The soon-to-reenter Soviet Cosmos 482 Venus probe is getting increased attention by satellite trackers – and new imagery provides some interesting details. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Most calculations predict the decaying probe's remnants could come crashing down early Saturday morning. Given its orbit, the spacecraft could land pretty much anywhere, astronomers calculate. But ...

(CNN) — A Soviet-era spacecraft that was designed to make a soft landing on Venus — but instead remained trapped in Earth orbit for decades — likely fell from the sky early Saturday morning, according ...

A spacecraft launched in 1972 and failed to enter Venus is set to return to Earth sometime this week. The Soviet-era spacecraft was meant to be a Venus probe. However, it failed to escape low Earth ...

The Soviet Union launched over a dozen probes to Venus—most successfully. But one never made it past Earth’s orbit and has, in fact, stayed there since 1972. Now, over 50 years later, the ...

A wayward Soviet spacecraft, adrift for more than half a century, will fall to Earth on Friday or Saturday, astronomers said. The craft, which came to be known as Cosmos 482, was Venus-bound when it ...