On July 22, 1972, a spacecraft landed on Venus! The Soviet space probe Venera 8 was the second spacecraft to successfully ...

In 1978, NASA’s Pioneer Venus Multiprobe mission sent four probes into the venusian atmosphere. Two of them made it to the surface, and one survived for 70 minutes after it landed.

The Venera 14 mission, launched by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, marked a historic achievement in space exploration. This interplanetary station made a daring landing on Venus, the hottest planet in ...

The last landing was over 30 years ago, despite increasing confidence among planetary scientists that Venus’ surface was once habitable (SN: 8/26/16).

If everything had gone to plan, an uncrewed Soviet-era spacecraft would have landed on Venus in 1972 to conduct a few hours of operations before dying for good. The probe known as Cosmos 482 was ...

The other, Venera 8, successfully landed on Venus to make scientific measurements of its soil, known as regolith, before ceasing operations, according to NASA.

A defunct Soviet probe designed to land on Venus will have an uncontrolled reentry this month and pieces of it may make it to Earth's surface. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...

Correction 6/11/2021, 12:03 p.m. ET: This article previously stated the only country to land a probe on Venus was the Soviet Union. The U.S. also unexpectedly landed a probe on Venus.

Press Release Expansion Of Landing Areas On The Venus Surface Using Resonant Orbits In The Venera-D Project by SpaceRef April 26, 2022 ...

Yet while Venera 8 successfully landed on Venus in July 1972 and survived 50 minutes on the surface, the later mission failed and the craft separated into several pieces.

Rather than observe the planet from far away either through Earth's observatories or with satellites and probes, Geoffrey Landis and his team at NASA want to put a landsail rover on Venus's surface.

The United Arab Emirates is setting a course for Venus and the main asteroid belt. The new interplanetary mission, announced by the UAE Space Agency on Tuesday, will launch in 2028.