A new study of Venus suggests that the deeply inhospitable world may be more like Earth than we thought. A new delve into archival data collected decades ago suggests that the alien planet has ongoing ...

When it comes to the question of which planet humanity could one day call home, the obvious choice might seem to be Mars. But ...

NASA has proposed a concept known as HAVOC, which involves building floating habitats in Venus’s upper atmosphere. At an altitude of around 50 kilometers, pressure and gravity are surprisingly similar ...

The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Venus on 10 August 2021 as the spacecraft passed the planet for a gravity assist manoeuvre. The image was taken at 13:57:56 UTC by ...

The very first visible-light images of Venus' surface from space have been captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe, and it could help researchers piece together the mysteries of the distant planet. NASA ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft headed to Mercury can be seen flying low above the ...

NASA scientists and engineers outlined the Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble Gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI) mission, which will plunge through the stratified Venus atmosphere to ...

In July 2020, Parker Solar Probe’s wide-field camera photographed a bright rim around the edge of the planet that may be nightglow — light emitted by oxygen atoms high in the atmosphere when they ...

Beneath a thick cover of clouds, Venus is aglow.The Parker Solar Probe mission, intended to study the sun, has revealed more about what lies beneath the thick atmosphere of Venus. The spacecraft ...

The co-founder of OceanGate—the expedition company involved in the recent Titanic wreck submersible disaster—is now setting his sights on something even more ambitious than the bottom of the Atlantic: ...

NASA designed the Parker Solar Probe to study the sun. However, the spacecraft has also managed to capture a series of first-of-their-kind images of Venus. The images feature the surface of Venus in ...