Launched over 50 years ago, this piece of the Kosmos 482 mission was designed to survive the punishing conditions on Venus.

Yahoo News spoke with an astronomer about approximately where and when a half-ton Soviet-era spacecraft stuck in Earth's ...

The craft weighs half a ton and could be traveling at 150 mph. The chances of it hitting a populated area are 'infinitesimally small.' ...

Cosmos 482 was launched to space by the Soviet Union in 1972 and was supposed to reach Venus. It has been stuck in Earth's ...

New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth's hotter twin, according to new ...

The Soviet spacecraft Kosmos-482 was launched in 1972 on a mission to Venus. But due to a rocket malfunction, it's been ...

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 Russian spacecraft called Kosmos 482 will fall out of orbit and crash back down to Earth sometime between Friday afternoon ...

A spacecraft launched more than 50 years ago is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry into Earth’s atmosphere in the ...

For a long time, Venus has been considered too hostile for life as we know it. Its thick clouds are filled with droplets of ...

The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft known as Kosmos-482 in 1972, one of a series of Venus missions. But it never made it ...