NASA released more details about its proposed fiscal year 2026 budget May 30, canceling dozens of science missions and ...

Recent analyses of archival data from NASA's Magellan mission have also ... skywatching events and more! — Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit ...

NASA had a surprise in store for planetary scientists today: During a “State of NASA” briefing, the agency announced that roiling, toxic Venus will ... The InSight Lander, launched in 2018 ...

A failed Soviet-era spacecraft that became trapped in Earth’s orbit by mistake more than 50 years ago is expected to make a ...

A probe launched from the Soviet Union more than five decades ago has plummeted back to Earth, splashing down in the Indian Ocean. Kosmos 482 had been bound for Venus but never reached its destination ...

A failed Soviet spacecraft launched more than half a century ago is expected to plummet back to Earth early on Saturday, just one day after Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day parade in Moscow.

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.

and two pieces—presumably the lander probe and detached ... sufficient velocity for the Venus transfer and left the payload in this elliptical Earth orbit,” NASA adds. The orbit of the lander ...

A piece of Soviet hardware built to survive the burning, crushing environment of Venus will soon crash down to Earth and, so far, noone has any idea where it might land. On March 27 and March 31, in ...

Venus is not a particular hospitable place, but the Venera mission probe was made for itImage: NASA/JPL-Caltech/AP Photo/picture alliance The mission was to deliver a lander equipped with ...

Fifty years ago, the former Soviet Union launched a probe to Venus. However, the rocket engines shut off too early, and the probe became stuck in Earth orbit. Now, it’s making its way back home, and ...