After decades of silence, NASA is refocusing on Venus with two new missions. Scientists aim to understand how a planet that may have once hosted oceans turned into a model of climate collapse.

For decades, Venus, often dubbed “Earth’s twin,” has been depicted as a barren, inhospitable world, its surface locked in an unchanging, oven-hot state. Yet, recent data from NASA’s Magellan orbiter ...

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NASA/JPL. We do know that Venus is covered in thousands of volcanoes — more than any other planet in our solar system — but we aren’t sure if they are active or not.

Using infrared imaging data collected by the two satellites over a 10-year period from 2015 to 2025, the team estimated ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, modified the backup Mariner 4 spacecraft to operate closer to the Sun, and on June 14, 1967, NASA launched Mariner 5 on a 127-day ...

The Venus flyby, which will be Parker's seventh and final flyby of the planet, will also allow NASA scientists to study it even more closely. During the probe's third Venus flyby in July 2020, its ...

NASA illustration of the Parker Solar Probe (main) and NASA image of Venus taken by the Mariner 10 spacecraft (inset). Parker will image Venus's surface as it flies by the planet today on its way ...

More evidence of a volcanic Venus 🌋 By analyzing archival data from @NASA’s Magellan mission, scientists have identified two volcanoes that erupted on Venus in the early 90s. https://t.co ...

NASA’s decision to transmit Elliott’s song to Venus marks only the second time NASA has chosen to transmit a song into space, the first being The Beatles’ “Across the Universe” sent to ...