"Exploring the clouds, say by balloon, can be done with technology that's ready today," Byrne told Space.com. "We could ...

On Wednesday (Nov. 6), NASA's Parker Solar Probe will complete its seventh swing past Venus— the spacecraft's final maneuver around the amber planet that will nudge it onto a trajectory that ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

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, ...

In a cosmic coincidence, Venus — the planet named for the Roman goddess of love — will be at its brightest and best on ...

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

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 ...

Hasn't NASA explored Venus before? Yes. In 1962, Venus became the first planet to be explored by a spacecraft, when NASA's Mariner 2 flew by, sending back information about the planet's atmosphere ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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