(Image credit: ESA) Studying Venus from multiple points BepiColombo passed by Venus on Aug. 10, just one day after another inner-solar-system explorer, Solar Orbiter, made its own close approach.

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 ...