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

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

Russia's space agency says a Soviet spacecraft fell back to Earth Saturday morning over the Indian Ocean. It was originally headed to Venus, but instead spent more than 50 years orbiting Earth.

and falling into the Indian Ocean, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said. The European Space Agency is monitoring Cosmos 482's uncontrolled descent. The spacecraft was last spotted on radar ...

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

Russia has reported that the Kosmos-482 spacecraft, launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 for Venus exploration, crashed into the Indian Ocean on 10 May. Source: Roscosmos, the Russian state ...

On Saturday, it came down over the Indian Ocean, according to Russia's space agency. MARTIN: Jonathan McDowell is an astronomer with the Center for Astrophysics. That's a collaboration between ...

Russia's space agency says a Soviet spacecraft fell back to Earth Saturday morning over the Indian Ocean. It was originally headed to Venus, but instead spent more than 50 years orbiting Earth.