A defunct, Soviet-era spacecraft is falling back to Earth uncontrolled, but experts say there’s little cause for alarm.

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

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

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus.

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

How heavy is the object and how fast will it crash into Earth? Does it have a ... What happens if this half-ton piece of Soviet-era spacecraft damages a building or a house when it crashes onto ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday ... It was not immediately known how much, if any, of the half-ton spacecraft survived the fiery descent from orbit. Experts said ahead ...

Like other Soviet probes of the time, the mission started by launching the probe and parking it in low-Earth orbit. From there, it should have made a 4-minute engine burn, pushing it into a Venus ...