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

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

The spacecraft’s expected area of reentry spans vast regions on both sides of the equator, where it could potentially land in ...

The spacecraft separated into four pieces, two of which fell back to Earth shortly thereafter. The other two, believed to be ...

What we know about the Soviet spacecraft returning to Earth this week - As the last remnant of the Soviet Venus program left ...

Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades. It's still unknown if the craft will fall to Earth intact or burn up upon ...

Venera 1 was launched in 1961, only four years after Sputnik 1, the first satellite. Venera 7, in 1970, was the first ...

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

But it never made it out of Earth orbit because of a rocket malfunction.Most of it came tumbling down within a decade. But Langbroek and others believe the landing capsule itself — a spherical ...