Update for 9 a.m. ET on May 9: According to the European Space Agency, the current reentry window for the Kosmos 482 Venus probe is 2:26 am ET on May 10 +/- 4.35 hours. This story was updated to ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. On May 10 of this year, the egg-shaped Kosmos-482 descent module, weighing roughly 1,091 pounds ...

Some of those early space probes succeeded in their missions, capturing the first measurements and images from the Venusian surface. Kosmos 482 was not one of them. Launched in 1972, Kosmos 482 was ...

Venus is a pressure cooker with surface temperatures that melt lead. Yet, in the 1970s, the Soviet Union achieved the ...

On Dec. 24, 1978, Venera 11 landed on Venus. Venera 11 was a robotic mission launched by the Soviet Union to explore Venus ...

The Parker Solar Probe is gearing up for a final swing past Venus on November 6, which will nudge it into an extremely tight orbit around our sun. Once it reaches its final position around our star on ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has been whizzing through space since 2018 at incredible speed, but it has yet to reach its final destination. Following a recent flyby of the planet Venus, Parker is finally ...