Venus is often called Earth’s twin, but its atmosphere is one of the harshest in the Solar System. NASA’s DAVINCI probe will dive into those clouds to search for chemical clues that could point to ...

NASA’s boldest plan yet to find alien life in our solar system targets the most unlikely place: Venus. With its scorching ...

NASA has announced plans for two missions to Venus, our nearest planetary neighbor. The missions, announced by the space agency on Wednesday, June 2, are expected to launch around 2028-2030 and ...

NASA has announced two new missions to study Venus for the first time in more than 30 years. The last time NASA visited Venus was by way of its Voyager 2 probe spacecraft in 1989, which passed by ...

NASA has awarded $1 billion to develop two new missions to Venus. The agency hasn't sent a probe there since the 1990s.

NASA picked two new robotic missions to explore the hot world of Venus, Earth’s neighbor and the second planet from the Sun, administrator Bill Nelson announced on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, Bill Nelson, the NASA administrator, announced the agency’s latest choices for robotic planetary missions, both expected to head to Venus in the late 2020s: DAVINCI+ and VERITAS.

According to NASA, the missions' goal is to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world when it has so many other characteristics similar to ours – and may have been the first habitable ...

A number of probes have ventured there before. The last NASA mission to visit Venus was the Magellan spacecraft, which launched in 1989 and arrived there in 1990. It orbited the boiling planet for ...

NASA's last mission dedicated to exploring Venus was a spacecraft called Magellan, which arrived on the planet in 1990 and spent four years mapping the planet's surface with a sophisticated radar ...