Space exploration often focuses on Mars, but Venus, our closest neighbor, holds many mysteries. Its surface is a true hell, but its atmosphere, at a certain altitude, offers more temperate conditions.
This innovative material has been developed to ensure a safe entry for future missions targeting high-temperature planets like Venus. The private Venus probe will be launched aboard Rocket Lab’s ...
"From developing small robots that could swim through the oceans of other worlds to growing space habitats from fungi, this program continues to change the possible." ...
Star would be the first private mission to another planet and the first in over 30 years to directly measure Venus’s clouds.
A private mission to Venus will collect atmospheric samples, aiming to study the planet’s clouds for signs of life.
And yet, it's a place so hostile we've barely scratched its surface with our exploration tools. But that's about to change. Venus, as a planet, is remarkable in more ways than one. It comes with a ...
If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...
At the forefront of tackling what that puzzling place can teach us is the Venus Exploration Analysis Group (VExAG), a community-based forum to help NASA shape and advance a clear strategy to probe ...