When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. On May 10 of this year, the egg-shaped Kosmos-482 descent module, weighing roughly 1,091 pounds ...

Venus, Earth's hostile twin, is growing more unpredictable for upcoming space missions. Extreme heat, crushing pressure, and corrosive clouds already challenge spacecraft. New findings reveal rapid ...

A spacecraft was en route to Venus when phosphine happened to be spotted. The astronomy community lit up earlier this week with news that hinted at possible signs of life on Venus. Among the most ...

In this episode, we trace the dramatic arc of the Soviet Venera program - a 23-year push that turned Venus from a romantic mystery into the most hostile world ever reached by human hands. We start ...

Aug. 27 (UPI) --The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is ready for a planned flyby of Venus on Sunday after the agency fixed its communications system. ESA officials commonly refer to ...

A recently analyzed transmission from the probe captured the clearest view of Venus’ hostile surface ever recorded. The ...

What is the importance of studying explosive volcanism on Venus? This is what a study published in the Journal of Geophysical ...

While on a journey to study the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has captured an incredible new view of Venus. The mission, which launched in 2018, is intended to study the sun and reveal some of its ...

An exceptionally heavy interplanetary probe is on an eight-year journey to Jupiter, using the gravity of Earth and Venus to propel it on its path toward the gas giant. Just weeks before its scheduled ...

BERLIN (AP) — A spacecraft bound for Mercury swung by Venus on Thursday, using Earth's neighbor to adjust its course on the way to the solar system’s smallest and innermost planet. Launched almost two ...

The answer to whether tiny bacterial lifeforms really do exist in the clouds of Venus could be revealed once-and-for-all by a UK-backed mission. Over the past five years researchers have detected the ...