Things may be moving on Venus’ surface. In 1983, researchers discovered that the planet’s surface was speckled with strange, circular landforms. These rounded mountain belts, known as coronae, have no ...

A new study suggests the planet’s iconic domes owe their strange shape to both thick lava and a flexible surface.

Representatives from NATO-aligned nations concluded a gathering in Dayton, Ohio, Monday to mark the 30th anniversary of the ...

“What goes up, must come down.” That’s pretty much the way gravity works and it’s a great song by the band “The Alan Parsons Project”. Then there's the story of Chicken Little. He gets hit on the head ...

A huge scare was had in Indonesia after a Soviet Union spacecraft crashed to Earth, falling into the Indian Ocean, just a few kilometers off the coast. However, it was not a curren ...

The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos reported on Saturday (May 10): "The spacecraft entered the dense layers of the atmosphere at 9:24 Moscow time [6.24am UK time], 560 km west of Middle Andaman Island, ...

The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to ...

It was originally one of the Soviet Union's Venera series of probes intended to explore the planet Venus. However, shortly after launch on March 31, 1972 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in what is ...

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine ...

After a groundbreaking discovery that found possible evidence of life in Venus’s acidic skies, Toronto-born Sara Seager is leading a robot mission to the planet ...

Soviet-era spacecraft Kosmos 482 re-enters Earth's atmosphere after 53 years in orbit without causing injuries or damage, emphasizing the issue of space debris and the importance of satellite tracking ...

A Soviet spacecraft originally launched toward Venus in 1972 has astonishingly returned to Earth after spending over half a ...