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

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 ...

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

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 temperatures with some help from NASA. The space agency boasted in a ...

Seven planets are on display in the night sky at the end of February, but some will be harder to spot than others. Here’s ...

VERITAS - short for Venus Emissivity, Radio science, InSAR, Topography, And Spectroscopy. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! Work is also ...

The two innermost planets, Venus and Mercury, will shine together low in the western sky at sunset on March 10. Here's how to ...

Venus will gain "maximum brilliance" on Valentine's Day this year, according to both Space.com and EarthSky, a stargazing and ...

Credit: Scientists explain why BepiColombo’s mission to Mercury is so tricky] The planets closest to Earth get the most flyby action: Mars, Venus, and of course, Earth itself. Just last year ...

Work is also underway on NASA's DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) mission that features a descent probe to plunge through the planet's clouds ...