The Soviet Union sent over a dozen probes to Venus, and what they found was shocking. Beneath the impenetrable clouds of our ...

Now entering its fifth season last month, "For All Mankind's" alt-history hit has presented a very different timeline where the Russians landed on the moon first in 1969, which sp ...

In this episode, we trace the dramatic arc of the Soviet Venera program - a 23-year push that turned Venus from a romantic mystery into the most hostile world ever reached by human hands. We start ...

On March 31, 1972, the Soviet Union launched a spacecraft as part of a series of unmanned missions to Venus known as the Venera program. But the spacecraft never made it to Venus. Instead, the capsule ...

After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the planet’s atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow time Saturday, according to Roscosmos, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After being stuck in space for more than half a century, a failed Soviet-era spacecraft—designed to collect data from ...

May 10 (UPI) --A Soviet-area spacecraft that orbited Earth for more than 50 years crashed into the Indian Ocean on Saturday, Russian officials confirmed. "The Kosmos-482 spacecraft, launched in 1972, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A Soviet spacecraft reentered Earth's atmosphere on Saturday, more than ...

A half-ton Soviet spacecraft that never made it to Venus 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend. Built to land on the solar system's hottest planet, the titanium-covered ...