On March 5, 1982, the Soviet Union's Venera 14 spacecraft landed on Venus! Venera 14 launched just five days after its ...

The images resemble a crescent Moon but with a crucial difference: Venus's glow is intrinsic, resulting from surface ...

Star would be the first private mission to another planet and the first in over 30 years to directly measure Venus’s clouds.

Led by Rocket Lab of Long Beach, California, and their partners at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Rocket Lab's Venus mission will be the first private mission to the planet.

A company that's slated to launch the world's first-ever private mission to Venus is getting ready for the planet's super-hot ...

If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with Venus so far. Today's flyby will be the first to significantly "tilt" the ...

To prepare the 50-pound probe — which will also track weather ... the woman running the Venus Life Finder mission has suggested that private companies like Rocket Labs will be able to launch ...

NASA/Brandon Torres Navarrete Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley, Bohdan Wesely, right, ...

One of these was the Venera programme that corresponded to a series of probes developed by the Soviet Union – to better understand our neighbouring planet Venus – between 1961 and 1984.