The Senate appropriations committee initially voted in favor of a bill rejecting Trump's NASA budget cuts, but discussions ...

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 ...

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 ...

SpaceX’s Starship, while revolutionary, is still in development and presents additional challenges for NASA’s lunar ambitions ...

The VERITAS mission to Venus is back on. NASA offered new details about when the launch will happen and what scientists hope to learn about the planet and climate change. A little under a year ago ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

NASA is returning to sizzling Venus, our closest yet perhaps most overlooked neighbor, after decades of exploring other worlds.The space agency's new administrator, Bill Nelson, announced two new ...

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 ...

Venus' atmosphere is made mostly of carbon dioxide, according to NASA. The planet is also shrouded in clouds of sulfuric acid. Because of its heat-trapping atmosphere, Venus has the hottest ...