Venera 13, a Soviet spacecraft, was the first lander to transmit color images from the surface of Venus. Although other landers arrived before and after it, pictures from Venera 13 are more widely ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published Aug. 26, 2020. It was updated May 9, 2025, with details of the failed mission Kosmos-482. The Pioneer and Voyager probes the United States sent to ...

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Soviet space probe Venera 5 or 6 launched in January 1969. This is a still from the film 'The Storming of Venus' released on May 17, 1969. Soviet space probe Venera 5 or 6 launched in January 1969.

There is no place like Earth, but there may have been billions of years ago. Fifty years ago on March 27, 1972, Venera-8, a Soviet atmospheric space probe and lander scoped out the surface of our ...

Forty-five years ago today (Aug. 17), the then-Soviet Union launched Venera 7, a spacecraft that would eventually become the first probe ever to send data from the surface of Venus, if only for a few ...

Russia is all set to begin efforts toward Venera-D or Venera-17, a renewed Venus landing mission. Expected to launch around 2036, Venera-D would include multiple vehicles and elements like a lander, a ...

__1966: __ The Soviet probe Venera 3 successfully lands on the surface of Venus. It's the first time anything man-made makes contact with an extraterrestrial surface beyond the Moon. The Soviet Union ...