Kosmos-482, which was headed to Venus, is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere by the end of this weekend. Experts don’t yet know where it may come down. By Nadia Drake A robotic Soviet ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... In recent weeks, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 has been making an uncontrolled approach towards Earth.

The object — part of the Kosmos-482 spacecraft that launched 53 years ago — crashed to Earth at around 9:24 a.m. Moscow time (2:24 a.m. ET) on Saturday, according to the Russian space agency ...

This sort of failure would repeat itself during the failed Phobos-Grunt mission, which crashed back to Earth on January 15 th ...

The Russian space agency Roscosmos reports that the impact of the Soviet probe Kosmos 482 occurred in the Indian Ocean. The descent, Roscosmos writes on its social media, was monitored by its ...

It will be traveling at approximately 150 mph (242 km/h). While its intriguing history has earned the lander media attention, Kosmos 482 is just one of more than 1.2 million pieces of space junk ...

After more than 50 years in space, the late Soviet Union's Kosmos-482 mission is set to reenter Earth's atmosphere early next ...

Most calculations predict the decaying probe's remnants could come crashing down early Saturday morning. Given its orbit, the spacecraft could land pretty much anywhere, astronomers calculate.