Learn about a new study that uses the data from Magellan to reveal insights into Venus’ ongoing tectonic activity and how it ...

The Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviet Union could attempt to ...

Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus's surface may reveal that the planet has ongoing tectonics, according to new research ...

Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus.

Predictions for the earthly plunge of a wayward Soviet era Venus space probe are narrowing as the old spacecraft is expected ...

Venus, often written off as a geologically dead world, is far more active beneath its blistering surface than previously ...

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions ...

The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred ...

New research suggests vast surface features on Venus called coronae continue to be shaped by tectonic processes. Observations ...

A remnant of the Soviet Venus program, Kosmos 482 has stayed aloft in in Earth's orbit for 53 years. But it may make a return ...

Debris from the 50 year-old probe Cosmos 482 crash-landed into the Indian Ocean over the weekend.