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

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 ...

Some recent spaceflight spectacles offer hints about what you might see if Kosmos 482 happens to fall through the sky above ...

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

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

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

Data for the study came from NASA’s Magellan mission, which orbited Venus in the 1990s. Though decades old, its radar ...

New research suggests that Venus may have ongoing tectonics, based on data from NASA's Magellan mission conducted over 30 ...

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

This is another similarity the planet could be sharing with Earth, which is continually renewed by the constant shifting and recycling of massive sections of crust, called tectonic plate.

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