To say that NASA has a lot of big plans for the next 10 years would be an understatement. The space agency is already talking about going back to the Moon. In fact, it has already picked out two ...

Space agencies from around the globe have sent a plethora of spacecraft to Venus over the past several decades in an attempt to better understand one of our closest planetary neighbors in the solar ...

Aerospace company Northrop Grumman has unveiled a new idea for an aircraft that is designed specifically to explore the upper atmosphere of Venus. The aircraft is called the Venus Atmospheric ...

The probe will reportedly be able to survive for up to 60 days on Venus' harsh surface, where all others have made it for only a few hours. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, ...

Venus, the second planet from the sun, seems like the last place one would want to send human beings. The surface of the cloud-shrouded planet is a hellscape. On Venus, temperatures reach 900 degrees ...

It’s not easy being Venus. Despite being nearly identical in size to Earth, our sister world suffers from a choking greenhouse effect, a surface covered in permanent sulfuric acid clouds, and average ...

Could a stingray-shaped spacecraft get to the dark side of Venus by flapping its wings? Researchers at the University of Buffalo (UB) are designing a spacecraft shaped like a stingray that could ...

Keep an eye on Arizona skies this week — a Soviet-era spacecraft could come crashing down. Kosmos 482, launched in 1972, was meant to explore Venus, but a malfunction left it stuck in Earth’s orbit ...

This Venus rover concept looks like something out of science fiction — from the 19th century. Researchers are studying the possibility of building a steampunk Venus rover, which would forsake ...

NASA is considering a spectacular airship concept for Venus exploration. The space agency’s Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate (SACD) has posted potential designs of the High Altitude Venus ...

NASA is going back to Venus—twice. In today's “State Of NASA” address new NASA Administrator Bill Nelson made the surprize announcement that its would send two new “Discovery” missions to study the ...

This adventurous Venus transit offers the chance to explore new horizons in love, beauty and romance ...