Mars might be our next home, but Venus was our first obsession. In the 20th century, astronomers dreamed of oceans and jungles on Venus - until the Soviet Venera probes proved otherwise. Extreme heat, ...

NASA Deep Atmosphere of Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging” (DAVINCI) will launch to Venus in 2029 ...

Why is Venus so different? Several scientific instruments are to explore our neighboring planet. ESA has now awarded the ...

"Japan's H-2A rocket carrying Akatsuki, Japan's first Venus probe lifts off at the Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima, southwestern Japan Friday, May 21, 2010," read the caption to the ...

Just days after the launch of Venera 5 in 1969, the Soviet Union launched Venera 6 to continue exploration of Venus. The mission ... Together the Venera 5 and 6 probe data allowed a more precise ...

Credit: NASA Venus as viewed from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech It's unknown when, exactly, these planet-altering events began. It could have been several ...

The only unsuccessful probe drilled by the supermajor is Nara-1X, which was targeting a western extension of Venus and is ...

Patrick Pouyanne says Tamboti’s permeability is ’not good’, although exploration sources say fracking and horizontal drilling ...

Their mission design revolves around two spacecraft joined together for launch and approach to Venus but then breaking apart into wildly different orbits. One of them, Demeter, is responsible for ...

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life. "We're trying to figure out how much mass is reaching Venus from Earth, and how many cells can that mass carry," Emma Guinan, first author of a ...

“We needed nine flybys (one at Earth, two at Venus, and six at Mercury) to slow down our spacecraft and bring it into a good position to enter the orbit of Mercury.” Sequence of 89 images ...

Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the European Space Agency to build the EnVision spacecraft that will unveil Venus’ deepest mysteries •           As prime contractor, Thales Alenia Space ...