For decades Venus hid its surface beneath an impenetrable blanket of clouds, leaving scientists to wonder whether Earth’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A piece of Soviet hardware built to survive the burning, crushing environment of Venus crashed down to Earth sometime early ...

The Cosmos 482 (aka Kosmos 482) Venera Venus lander, launched in 1972, is expected to (crash) land tonight .. on Earth, not Venus. Here is the trajectory map of 6 orbits from Aerospace Corp. with some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many think Kosmos 482 may make planetfall on Earth instead of incinerating in the atmosphere (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Three flew ...

This Soviet stamp commemorates the Venera 8 mission to Venus. The USSR went all-out with its commemorative spaceflight memorabilia: postage stamps, lapel pens, and even fountain pens shaped like ...

During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR launched 29 spacecraft towards Venus, the planet scientists call Earth’s “twin sister”. Three flew past Venus, and went into orbit ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth’s atmosphere in the next few days after misfiring on a journey to Venus more than 50 years ago. On average, a ...

The remains of a spacecraft launched by the USSR in 1972 on a doomed mission to land on Venus could strike Earth on Friday, May 9, or Saturday, May 10, in a rare uncontrolled reentry. Marooned in ...