A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 is due to come crashing back into Earth's atmosphere around May 10 and nobody knows where it will land.

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth.

A piece of a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1972 is expected to crash back down to Earth very soon, experts say. The part, which is from the Cosmos 482 probe, was meant to land on the planet Venus. While it made it into space successfully, the spacecraft wasn't able to complete its journey after something went wrong.