It was not immediately known how much, if any, of the half-ton spacecraft survived the fiery descent from orbit.

A half-ton spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend ...

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

Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to crash back to Earth this week after being stuck in orbit for more than half a ...

The odds of Kosmos 482 slamming into a populated area are ‘infinitesimally small’, said University of Colorado Boulder ...

The Soviet Union launched Kosmos 482 in 1972 ... But Langbroek and others believe the landing capsule itself — a spherical object about 3 feet in diameter — has been circling the world ...

Cosmos 482, launched in 1972 as part of the Soviet Union's Venera program, which intended to explore Venus, is forecasted to return to Earth around 2:30 a.m. ET, plus or minus four hours ...

A Soviet spacecraft that failed to launch to Venus is set to fall back to Earth in the next week. The Kosmos 482 capsule was built for Venus's brutal atmosphere, so it will likely survive Earth's.

Part of a Soviet-era ... said Mr Stijn Lemmens, Senior Space Debris Mitigation Analyst at the European Space Agency. The lander capsule is a tough, spherical object about a metre wide and weighs ...