Venera – the duo of Korn guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer and composer/filmmaker Chris Hunt – have announced their second ...

Venera — the ambient experimental project helmed by Korn guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer and composer/filmmaker Chris Hunt — ...

Global warming is causing various natural disasters to become more frequent or more severe. Earthquakes are now being added to the growing list.

Updated 7.30pm Jurors in the ongoing murder trial of four men accused in the assassination of lawyer Carmel Chircop were taken to key locations linked to the crime during a site visit on Friday.

Kosmos-482, which the U.S.S.R. launched back in 1972, was meant to follow the successful probes Venera 7 and Venera 8 in landing on and studying Venus.

According to the NASA spokesman the lander probe "was an insulated spherical pressure vessel of similar design to the Venera 7 probe.

A mockup of the Venera 7 lander, similar to the object that fell to Earth. The Soviet's Venera 7 made it to Venus in 1970. ESA If you’ve been spending much of the last 24 hours inside a secure ...

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian Ocean early Saturday morning.

Venera 8 repeated much of the Venera 7 mission, albeit without its lander falling over when it reached the surface of Venus on July 22, 1972.

Venera 1 was launched in 1961, only four years after Sputnik 1, the first satellite. Venera 7, in 1970, was the first spacecraft to successfully soft-land instead of crashing on a planet.

It and its sister craft were supposed to follow the success of the Venera 7 probe which touched down on Venus in 1970 in what was then the first soft landing on another planet.

The mission was part of the Soviet Union's Venera program, which achieved the first soft landing of a spacecraft on another planet with the Venera 7 mission in 1970, and followed up with another ...