The Soviet Venera probes were a series of spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union between the 1960s and 1980s to explore ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth. It’s too early to know where the half-ton mass of metal ...

After being stuck in space for more than half a century, a failed Soviet-era spacecraft—designed to collect data from Venus—crashed into the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia in the early hours ...

Venus once had a climate similar to Earth's, with oceans and possibly life. A runaway greenhouse effect, likely caused by massive volcanism, drastically changed Venus's climate. Evidence of ancient ...

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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 ...