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 ...

WASHINGTON — A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Soviet Venera program The Soviet Union's Space Research Institute, or IKI, ran a groundbreaking Venus exploration program amid the 20th century space race.

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 ...