"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 ...

A conjunction is when two or more planets come close together in the sky. On the evening of Jan. 21, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and Saturn will align in the sky, according to Starwalk.space ...

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviet Union sent several uncrewed missions to study Venus. Ten of these Venera probes landed on the surface of Venus and were able to transmit data and images for ...

On Dec. 24, 1978, Venera 11 landed on Venus. Venera 11 was a robotic mission launched by the Soviet Union to explore Venus along with its sister spacecraft Venera 12. Venera 11 launched in ...

By the time the 1980s were in full swing, the Venera 13 lander was the first to send back audio recorded from the surface of Venus. Yet by the time the Vega 2 mission reported its successful ...

One of them, Professor Konrad, determines they have landed on Venus, a planet scientists had believed to be uninhabitable. They are taken prisoner by the inhabitants, all beautiful women ...