On March 5, 1982, the Soviet Union's Venera 14 spacecraft landed on Venus! Venera 14 launched just five days after its ...

Now, Firefly is about to find out if its lunar program is a technical success. Landing on the Moon is risky. In the last decade, the success rate for lunar landing attempts is a little above 50 ...

"But given it likely never had oceans, it is hard to imagine Venus ever having supported Earth-like life, which requires liquid water." Several spacecraft have successfully landed on the surface ...

Yet by the time the Vega 2 mission reported its successful landing in 1984, the USSR which had been running the Venera and Vega programs ceased their exploration of Venus. Even so the 1980s saw 8 ...

Over the last 50 years, spacecraft have landed on over half a dozen worlds. Including Venus, Saturn's moon Titan, a comet, and more. But nowhere has proven more treacherous than the Red Planet ...

A striking new photo captures a colorful conjunction of Venus and the moon stealing the show in the night sky over Paris — even outshining competition from an iconic illuminated landmark.

Venus presents an enormous challenge for space probes given its intense temperatures, crushing air pressure and a corrosive atmosphere – all of which make landing missions virtually impossible.