The time part or all of the dead probe is expected to impact Earth continues to narrow in on Friday overnight into Saturday ...

Space debris re-enters Earth every day. Most of it burns up in the atmosphere. But Russia's 1972 failed Venera mission probe Cosmos 482 is different.

Cosmos 482, part of a Soviet-era spacecraft that failed to reach Venus in the 1970s, is expected to crash back on Earth ...

Cosmos (or Kosmos) 482's orbit has slowly brought it closer to our planet since 1972, and now it's on the cusp of plummeting ...

While space junk and meteors routinely veer toward a ... while traveling thousands of miles per hour. But if the Cosmos 482 object is indeed a Soviet reentry capsule, it would be equipped with ...

The probe's return to Earth had been closely monitored by multiple space agencies, including the European Space Agency (ESA) ...

Cosmos 482 – also referred to as Kosmos 482 ... the federally-funded Virginia-based Aerospace Corp., which tracks space debris, predicts the probe reentering Earth's atmosphere at 1:54 ...