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

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 ...

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

In 1990, NASA's Magellan mission became the first spacecraft to image the entire surface of Venus. This allowed scientists to determine the thermal, chemical and mechanical evolution of the planet ...

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 ...

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.

Data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter is used in an undated composite image of the planet Venus. It will consist of four planets, including Venus, Saturn, Mercury ...