The Soviet Venera mission went silent soon after landing on Venus. This documentary explores the final images and the ...

The air on Venus is about 96.5% carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas. All that CO2 leads to a runaway greenhouse effect which has turned Venus into a toxic hellscape. It’s hotter even than the ...

Forty-three years ago, in March 1982, humanity received its last direct visual postcard from the surface of Venus.

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European ...

More than 50 years ago in the early 1960s, the Soviet space program embarked on a bold new undertaking to go where no human had gone before. The Venera mission to explore Earth's nearest orbital ...

The conceptual design work will kick off in January 2026 along with the national project’s implementation, the scientist said MOSCOW, August 17. /TASS/. The development and launch of a Venera-D (Venus ...