A Russian spacecraft on a mission to the moon crashed and lost contact, according to Russia's space agency.

In 1975 and 1982, four of the Soviet Union’s Venera probes took the only images ever captured of Venus' surface.

The recent fall to Earth of a failed Soviet Venus probe from the 1970s has become a detective story of sorts. Different computer models were used to predict the reentry. But why were they ...

Talk about a space race! Just a few minutes after the Soviet spacecraft began its descent on July 21, it unexpectedly crashed into a mountain and stopped transmitting data back to mission control.

A 500kg Soviet-era spacecraft that has been stuck in Earth's orbit for 53 years is expected to finally crash back to our home planet this week.