This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this image showing the nightside surface of Venus. A family of asteroids share the planet's orbit, and two new studies suggest that one day the space rocks could ...

Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft was never supposed to survive. After a failed Venus orbit insertion in 2010, it drifted through ...

The soon-to-reenter Soviet Cosmos 482 Venus probe is getting increased attention by satellite trackers – and new imagery provides some interesting details. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus.Related video above: Venus is the brightest planet in our solar systemIts uncontrolled ...

Venus looks like Earth’s twin at first glance, yet its rotation behaves like a cosmic prank. The planet spins backward, ...

Most calculations predict the decaying probe's remnants could come crashing down early Saturday morning. Given its orbit, the spacecraft could land pretty much anywhere, astronomers calculate. But ...

DARMSTADT, Germany — A European spacecraft moved into orbit around Venus on Tuesday, successfully completing a critical stage of a mission to explore the hostile climate and atmosphere of Earth's ...

Part of a Soviet-era spacecraft may return to Earth this week, more than 50 years after it embarked on a botched mission to Venus. Cosmos 482 launched in 1972 with the intent of landing on Venus for ...

A potentially destructive Soviet Venus lander that was lost in space for over half a century has reentered the Earth's atmosphere. Tracked by various space agencies and individuals, the capsule ...

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