Astronomers predict that the 500kg (1,100 lbs) landing module could hit the planet as early as this afternoon.

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

Launched in 1972, the Soviet spacecraft Kosmos-482, intended for Venus, is unexpectedly returning to Earth after a failed ...

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

Some recent spaceflight spectacles offer hints about what you might see if Kosmos 482 happens to fall through the sky above ...

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in the next few days ...

The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 (Cosmos 482) spacecraft is crashing to Earth within the next 40 hours, and the aerospace ...

A Cold War-era spacecraft is about to return to Earth, the final leg of its failed mission to explore one of our closest ...

Time was, the Soviet Union fairly owned Venus. From 1961 to 1983, the U.S.’s old space race rival launched 16 probes, Venera ...

It's too early to know where the half-ton mass of metal might come down or how much of it will survive reentry.

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within days.