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

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 ...

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 ...

Venus, often called Earth’s “evil twin” planet, formed closer to the Sun and has since evolved quite differently from our own planet. It has a “runaway” greenhouse effect (meaning heat is completely ...

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 ...

When it comes to the question of which planet humanity could one day call home, the obvious choice might seem to be Mars. But surprisingly, Venus might actually be a better candidate for human ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...