What drives us to send probes throughout the solar system and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

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.

Despite being a hellish world, the hot, cloud-enveloped world Venus is a tantalizing target for scientists eager to learn more about its history, evolution and present state. At the forefront of ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t plan on seeing the linkup.

Star would be the first private mission to another planet and the first in over 30 years to directly measure Venus’s clouds.

The first private spacecraft mission to Venus will combat the planet's hellish conditions with the aid of a novel woven heat ...

As Venus approaches its inferior conjunction, astrophotographers have snapped some striking shots of the crescent planet ...

MOSCOW, September 15. /TASS/. Russia plans to send its own mission to Venus in addition to the planned joint mission with the USA "Venera-D," head of Russian space corporation Roscosmos Dmitry ...

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 ...