In an astonishing twist, theKosmos 482, a Russian spacecraft launched in 1972, is thought to have finally fallen to Earth after more than five decades of floating uncontrollably in orbit. Experts tracking its descent have said the spacecraft,

After more than half a century orbiting Earth, the Soviet-era space probe Cosmos 482 has brought its long and ultimately failed interplanetary mission to an end with a

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall back to our planet. Exactly where or when it will strike, however, remains