Another planetary alignment is coming up next month, and while it won't be a large one, it'll still be enough to dazzle ...

It has, but it’s been quite a while. The Magellan probe was the first spacecraft to image the surface of Venus. VERITAS would do so in much higher resolution and clarity. Magellan was launched ...

After this mission, the 1989 Magellan orbiter mission was the US’s next and final Venus mission. The Venus surface, as photographed by the USSR Venera 13 in 1982 (recolorized). Since the 2010s ...

Credit: NASA/Brandon Torres Navarrete Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley report progress ...

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

So Venus presents us with an opportunity to study the ongoing evolution of a geologically active Earth-like planet. That's one of the most exciting things we've learned from the Magellan mission.

The first private spacecraft mission to Venus will combat the planet's hellish conditions with the aid of a novel woven heat shield called "HEEET." Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center in ...