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New research based on data collected 30 years ago suggests that Venus' surface is still actively changing, likely because of ...
A fresh look at data from NASA's Magellan mission has revealed potentially ground-shaking insights into mysterious structures ...
Data from NASA's Magellan mission uncovers surprising tectonic activity on Venus, suggesting the planet is geologically ...
Venus, often written off as a geologically dead world, is far more active beneath its blistering surface than previously ...
A new study of Venus suggests that the deeply inhospitable world may be more like Earth than we thought.
An image of the surface of Venus captured by Russian mission Venera 13 in 1982. (Venera 13/Don P. Mitchell) With a slide from ...
Data for the study came from NASA’s Magellan mission, which orbited Venus in the 1990s. Though decades old, its radar ...
The Soviet Venus probe Kosmos 482 is expected to fall to Earth on May 10, but exactly when and where remains unknown.
Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.
Kosmos 482 was launched in March 1972 as part of the Soviet Venera program to explore Venus from the surface. A launch mishap ...
The Virtual Telescope Project aims to observe the anticipated reentry of the former Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 spacecraft as ...
During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR launched 29 spacecraft towards Venus, the planet ...