A piece of Soviet hardware built to survive the burning, crushing environment of Venus crashed down to Earth sometime early Saturday morning, and, so far, no one has any idea where. On March 27 and ...

On July 22, 1972, a spacecraft landed on Venus! The Soviet space probe Venera 8 was the second spacecraft to successfully execute a soft landing on the planet's surface. Venera 8 spent 117 days ...

A long-lost Soviet spacecraft has at last made its blazing re-entry into the Earth after 50 years. The heavy lander, after its aborted attempt to explore Venus, got trapped in low orbit for decades.

The former Soviet Union's Cosmos 482, a failed Venus mission from March 31, 1972, reentered Earth's atmosphere after decades in orbit. Its lander component made an uncontrolled descent, impacting the ...

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Venus is close-by and similar in size to Earth, but until recently, we couldn’t tell much about it. Dr. Rakesh Mogul, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, at Cal Poly Pomona took another look at ...

An out-of-control Russian spacecraft has probably plummeted to Earth, after 53 years stuck in orbit, experts say. In recent weeks, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 has been making an uncontrolled ...