The Soviet Venera probes were a series of spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union between the 1960s and 1980s to explore Venus, making them the first missions to successfully reach and study another ...

MOSCOW, March 4. /TASS/. Russia begins designing the Venus-D automatic interplanetary station, Russian Academy of Sciences’ (RAS) Space Research Institute head Lev Zelyony said, adding that ...

More Venus missions are planned, but their funding is uncertain. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Humanity's last active mission ...