The soon-to-reenter Soviet Cosmos 482 Venus probe is getting increased attention ... has snagged a first set of images of only the capsule in Earth orbit. "We see a clear compact ball!

Credit: Keystone/Getty Images The space race between the United ... On September 13, 1959 the Soviet Union achieved that goal with Luna 2. A chrome sphere with a notch at the bottom and four ...

Russia's Luna-25 probe likely left a 33-foot-wide crater on the surface of the moon last month when it lost control and crashed down, NASA said Thursday, revealing images that show the suspected ...

VW Pics//Getty Images The 13. ... that both the U.S. and Soviet Union did during the space race. Ironically, though, Luna-25’s failure may allow India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission a crack at Russia ...

The Russian space probe, Luna 25 has ... recalled in the post that the Soviet spacecraft lunar three took the first images of the far side of the moon. In 1959 Luna, 25 had been launched on ...

Medallion which was delivered to the surface of planet Venus by the soviet space probe Venera 3 on March 1, 1966. Universal Images Group—Getty Ordinarily, even a spacecraft as big as Kosmos 482 ...

An illustration of Soviet space probe Venera 5 or 6 the film, ‘The Storming of Venus’ from 1969. Credit: Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images “With a mass of just under 500 kg ...