Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

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

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 ...

Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley report progress in installing a heat shield on the ...

The probe’s; mission has been ongoing for over two and a half years, and while the Sun is its primary target of study, it comes close enough to planets like Venus to capture some amazing images.

Venus is a Victim of a Rampant Greenhouse Effect Venus's atmosphere is made mostly of carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse ...

To prepare the 50-pound probe — which will also track weather ... the woman running the Venus Life Finder mission has suggested that private companies like Rocket Labs will be able to launch ...

BOSTON —Droplets of Venus’ clouds may someday come to Earth. Researchers are testing a device that can gather mist from our planetary neighbor’s atmosphere and deliver it to scientists so ...

Still, some eerie similarities with Earth make Venus fascinating. Plus, how can you not love a planet that casually melts lead and crunches probes like soda cans, yet might harbor life in its ...

Teams at Ames work with private companies, like Rocket Lab, to turn NASA materials into solutions such as the heat shield tailor-made for this spacecraft destined for Venus, supporting the growth ...

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 ...