See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An old viral image of the surface of the planet Venus was making the ...

The Soviet space program post-1966 is somewhat of a cruel joke. It's as if the tragic, untimely death of Sergei Korolev in 1966 doomed the Soviet Space Program to endless failure from the N1 to the ...

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, ...

The northern hemisphere of Venus is displayed in this view of the planet created with data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft. - PL-Caltech/NASA Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus atmosphere, it is possible that it will survive ...

In 1975, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9 lander became the first spacecraft to transmit photographs from the surface of Venus, surviving only 53 minutes before succumbing to the planet’s extreme ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Soviet-area space crashed into the Indian Ocean Saturday, after spending more than 50 years stuck orbiting Earth after initially ...