On July 22, 1972, a spacecraft landed on Venus! The Soviet space probe Venera 8 was the second spacecraft to successfully ...

The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the ...

NASA targets Venus with plans to send its first probes there in more than 30 years. The missions would study Venus’s atmosphere and topography as well as how Earth evolved, the space agency said ...

Japan's first space probe launched in May 21, 2010, aboard an H2-A rocket heading for Venus. It entered the planet's orbit by Dec. 7, 2015 after a previous attempt in 2010.

Over a few short weeks of June 2021, NASA committed to two new Venus missions, VERITAS and DAVINCI, while the European Space Agency greenlit one called EnVision.All three are expected to conduct ...

Europe’s last foray there was the Venus Express spacecraft, which orbited the planet and studied it from 2006 until 2014. Today, Japan’s climate-observing Akatsuki is the only emissary from ...

Various NASA spacecraft have done flybys of Venus in more recent years, but the agency hasn't launched a dedicated Venus mission since Magellan, which reached the planet in 1990 to map the surface ...

The future of Venus exploration could definitely change, too, with more precautions needed when sending spacecraft there. “It’s time to prioritize Venus.” Skip to main content ...

Navigating a Venusian gauntlet. Venus is a notoriously difficult world to visit (SN: 2/13/18).Its searing temperatures and crushing atmospheric pressure have destroyed every spacecraft lucky ...

The Venus mission won't be Rocket Lab's first foray beyond Earth orbit, if all goes according to plan. The company recently scored a contract to fly a NASA satellite to the moon in early 2021 ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft is set to reenter Earth's atmosphere after over 50 years, returning this week from its failed mission to Venus. NASA said on May 5 that Cosmos 482 will return to Earth ...