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

A daring mission, the "EVE" project, proposes to explore Venus using an autonomous balloon capable of producing its own lifting gas and energy, paving the way for unlimited exploration.

Venus has phases just like the moon. Before and after the conjunction, Venus looks like a thin crescent — though only telescopes can see it. Those looking for signs of the transition can watch Venus ...

The mission would be the first to directly measure ... “We’re now entering a new era of Venus exploration,” Iakubivskyi said. Lisa Grossman is the astronomy writer. She has a degree in ...

"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." ...

Yet by the time the Vega 2 mission reported its successful landing in 1984, the USSR which had been running the Venera and Vega programs ceased their exploration of Venus. Even so the 1980s saw 8 ...

Sample return missions from Venus, something scientists here on ... the second planet from the Sun is becoming for space exploration. Aside from the DAVINCI I mentioned earlier, for instance ...

After decades of sending their milestone missions to Mars, the gas giants, or even out to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, NASA funded early-stage feasibility studies for two Venus exploration projects.

NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology program, part of the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, supported the development of the heat shield for Rocket Lab’s Venus mission. HEET is a ...

Paul McCartney's “The Kiss of Venus” was partly inspired by a book chapter describing the inferior conjunction. And two upcoming NASA missions will put a spotlight on Venus, investigating how ...