Only four spacecraft have ever sent back images from their surface before being destroyed. The Soviet Union’s Venera probes, launched in 1975 and 1982, took the only photos ever captured from Venus’ ...

In 1975, a Soviet probe plunged through Venus’s thick, poisonous atmosphere, landed on a terrain never seen by a human eye, and lasted only 53 minutes before being overwhelmed by the heat and pressure ...

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a ...

NASA never paid much attention to Venus. The planet don't have the standard characteristics to hold life. But recently, they ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) revealed its ambitious plan for India's first space station, the Bharatiya ...

Dutch scientist Marco Langbroek estimated the impact speed at 150mph if the spacecraft remains intact. The Soviets launched Kosmos 482 in 1972, intending to send it to Venus to join other ...

Referring to the success of the Group Captain Shubhanshu Shuklas mission to the International Space Station, the ISRO chief ...

On 10 May 2025, the Cosmos-482 descent craft reentered Earth's atmosphere after 53 years in orbit. It was designed to land on Venus, but it never escaped Earth’s gravity. Image credit ...

For the record, 10 Venera craft successfully landed on the surface of Venus. In 1975, Venera 9 gave us our first views of the planet’s surface.

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European ...