How can we successfully collect and return samples from Mercury and Venus to Earth? This is what a recent study presented at ...

Sometimes, the best way to learn how to do something is just to do it. That is especially true if you're learning to do something using a specific methodology. And in some cases, the outcome of your ...

NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology program, part of the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, supported the ...

By the time the 1980s were in full swing, the Venera 13 lander was the first to send back audio recorded from the surface of Venus. Yet by the time the Vega 2 mission reported its successful ...

So when I heard that U.S. planetary scientists were plotting an audacious “flagship” mission to revisit Earth’s evil twin, I was reminded of my first Venus encounter. In 1974, even before ...

Venus, the hottest planet in the solar system, is estimated to have 85,000 volcanoes, based on radar images from NASA's 1989 ...

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Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

ISRO is scheduled to launch its Venus mission in 2025 and France will participate in it, French space agency CNES said on Wednesday. The VIRAL (Venus Infrared Atmospheric Gases Linker) instrument ...

MOSCOW, September 15. /TASS/. Russia plans to send its own mission to Venus in addition to the planned joint mission with the USA "Venera-D," head of Russian space corporation Roscosmos Dmitry ...

The oxygen concentration was found in a specific region of Venus's atmosphere, located approximately 60 miles (100 km) above its surface. The temperature of this oxygen varies significantly ...