Venera 4 was launched into space on a mission to Venus, thus becoming the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet's atmosphere. This was a Russian probe designed to study the atmosphere ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, ...

The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to touch down on Venus. Because of a propulsion problem, it never escaped ...

The deployment of the first nuclear power plant on the Moon and work on exploring Venus are among the tasks assigned to Roscosmos – as ...

South Korea’s state-backed Institute for Basic Science has ordered the first of five cubesats to study Venus from LEO ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

A new study suggests that unidentified "co-orbital asteroids" around Venus may have the capacity to impact our planet in the ...

They orbit with Venus, but they’re headed our way. A newly modeled population of stealthy asteroids could pose a collision risk to Earth.

A new threat looms as scientists warn of dangerous asteroids near Venus, hidden from Earth's telescopes by the Sun's glare. These Venus co-orbitals, i ...

The research supports the argument that Venus’ tectonics are active today, he says. What’s more, the demonstrated ability of computer simulations to predict what spacecraft may observe will be a boon ...