In the decades since its launch, the spacecraft circled Earth aimlessly as it was slowly dragged back toward home.

A spacecraft that's been hanging around in orbit after a botched launch more than half a century ago has finally crashed back ...

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian ...

The Kosmos-482 automated interplanetary station, launched in 1972 to study Venus, has returned to Earth, crashing into the ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft has plunged to Earth more than half a century after its failed launch to Venus. Russia says it landed ...

Cosmos 482, launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1972 with a destination of Venus, malfunctioned and has been in ...

The Kosmos 482 spacecraft, a Soviet spacecraft that was launched in 1972 on a failed trip to Venus, fell back into Earth on ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft called Kosmos 482 has crashed on earth after 53 years "stuck in orbit," according to The Associated ...

A Soviet-area spacecraft that orbited Earth for more than 50 years crashed into the Indian Ocean on Saturday, Russian ...

The EU Space Surveillance and Tracking system showed a map of its potential landing route, including land areas marked in red ...

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions for exploring the solar system.

TASS/. Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritsky (a TASS special reporter in space) and Kirill Peskov congratulated Russian citizens on Victory Day from the board of the International ...