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

A spacecraft launched more than 50 years ago has crashed into Earth. The defunct probe from the former Soviet Union, known as Kosmos 482, was launched in 1972 on a mission to explore Venus. A launch ...

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

In the decades since its launch, the spacecraft circled Earth aimlessly as it was slowly dragged back toward home.

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

The Kosmos-482 automated interplanetary station, launched in 1972 to study Venus, has returned to Earth, crashing into the ...

Cosmos 482, launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1972 with a destination of Venus, malfunctioned and has been in ...

The EU Space Surveillance and Tracking system showed a map of its potential landing route, including land areas marked in red ...

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 ...

A Soviet-area spacecraft that orbited Earth for more than 50 years crashed into the Indian Ocean on Saturday, Russian ...

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

NASA's oldest full-time astronaut is back home and doing well a week after wrapping up a seven-month space mission.