Experts say the Venus-bound probe's durable design could allow it to survive reentry, posing a small risk to populated areas.

Part of a spacecraft that has been stuck in orbit for 53 years is due to reenter Earth’s atmosphere around May 10 and could arrive intact.

A Cold War-era Soviet spacecraft is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry into Earth’s atmosphere around May 10, marking the dramatic end of a failed mission launched more than five decades ago. Kosmos 482,