But the Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviets could attempt to ...

A SOVIET spacecraft once destined for Venus is expected to crash back to Earth on Saturday after more than 50 years stuck in orbit. In the latest predictions, the Cold War-era spacecraft will ...

President Donald Trump has proposed slashing federal scientific funding. Economists say the long-term consequences could be ...

After a failed soviet union mission to venus 53 years ago the spacecraft has been left in orbit around earth since the early ...