The 50-plus-year-old spacecraft was trapped in Earth orbit for decades. Now, it has likely fallen back home, according to the ...

The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed Kosmos 482 landed back on Earth based on analysis.

Soviet-era spacecraft Kosmos 482 reenters Earth's atmosphere uncontrolled, sparking concerns over potential debris impact.

Much of the spacecraft came tumbling back to Earth within a decade of the failed launch. No longer able to resist gravity’s tug as its orbit dwindled, the spherical lander – an estimated 3ft across – ...

Earth isn't the planet that Kosmos 482 was supposed to land on. The spacecraft was part of the Soviet Union's Venera program, which sent a fleet of probes to Venus in the 1960s, ' ...