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 ...

NASA scientists said the two Venus missions were selected on their merits, scoring highest on the agency's assessments. Although both are going to Venus, each mission is different from the other ...

NASA’s DAVINCI mission to Venus is scheduled for launch in 2029. A new paper details this upcoming journey, a daring mission that could shed new light on the scorching hot planet’s mysterious ...

NASA announces two missions to explore Venus 00:32. Two new discovery missions to Venus will be launched by NASA between 2028 and 2030, the space agency announced Wednesday.

After the detection of phosphine in Venus’ atmosphere, many in the astronomy community are speculating about whether it’s time to return to the planet to look for signs of life. The future of ...

The missions, announced by the space agency on Wednesday, June 2, are expected to launch around 2028-2030 and will be the first NASA voyages to Venus in more than 30 years.

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine described the planet Venus as “one stop in our search for life.” “Today, we are on the cusp of amazing discoveries that could tell us more about the ...

NASA's future Venus missions will teach us about the planet's past, and whether life existed previously . By Paul K. Byrne. Published June 16, 2021 9:00AM (EDT) ...

NASA/JPL. We do know that Venus is covered in thousands of volcanoes — more than any other planet in our solar system — but we aren’t sure if they are active or not.

NASA has announced that it will send two probes to Venus towards the end of the decade, in what will be the first time the agency has visited the hellish planet in more than 30 years.

NASA, which sent probes into the Venusian atmosphere in 1978, last dispatched a spacecraft to Venus in 1989. That craft, Magellan, orbited the planet for four years, mapping it before plunging ...