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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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 ...

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

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