After decades of silence, NASA is refocusing on Venus with two new missions. Scientists aim to understand how a planet that may have once hosted oceans turned into a model of climate collapse.

For decades, Venus, often dubbed “Earth’s twin,” has been depicted as a barren, inhospitable world, its surface locked in an unchanging, oven-hot state. Yet, recent data from NASA’s Magellan orbiter ...

The Venus flyby, which will be Parker's seventh and final flyby of the planet, will also allow NASA scientists to study it even more closely. During the probe's third Venus flyby in July 2020, its ...

Using infrared imaging data collected by the two satellites over a 10-year period from 2015 to 2025, the team estimated brightness temperatures on day-to-year scales. The results revealed temporal ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, modified the backup Mariner 4 spacecraft to operate closer to the Sun, and on June 14, 1967, NASA launched Mariner 5 on a 127-day ...

NASA itself is working on a second one, called VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy), and its European counterpart does the same with something called ...

NASA has big plans to explore Venus within the next 10 years. Last week, the space agency shared details about its Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble Gases, Chemistry, ...

NASA’s decision to transmit Elliott’s song to Venus marks only the second time NASA has chosen to transmit a song into space, the first being The Beatles’ “Across the Universe” sent to ...

The full buck moon will reach its peak illumination on Thursday, July 10. It’s just one of this month’s celestial highlights.