Venus’ Only Active Probe Mysteriously Falls Silent
For nearly 10 years, there’s been only one spacecraft able to keep its cool above the hellish landscape of Venus. The Japanese Akatsuki probe was sent to Earth’s neighboring planet…
How Did Water Escape From Venus? A New Study May Have Solved the Mystery
Around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth and Venus were born in the midst of a chaotic star system. With the neighboring worlds being of the same size and similar structure,…
An Ambitious Mission to Venus Is Set to Launch in 2031
The EnVision mission to Venus was officially adopted by the European Space Agency on Thursday, which means the organization has committed to getting the spacecraft Venus-bound by the early 2030s.…
Venus’s Skies Are Covered in Oxygen, Actually
While air is a gaseous delight unique to Earth, a team of astrophysicists have made a satisfying discovery: the direct observation of atomic oxygen on Venus’ dayside, confirming that the…
The Last Images From Doomed Space Probes
Venus, in all its stinking hot glory.Image: USSR Academy of Sciences / Brown University Decades before the other missions on this list, the USSR launched a series of probes to…
The 7 Weirdest Things About Venus, Hell Planet
The transit of Venus (right) across the sun’s face in 2012, as seen in false color by the SDO satellite.Photo: SDO/NASA (Getty Images) It’s been 30 years since a NASA…
500-Year-Old Leonardo Da Vinci Sketches Show Him Grappling With Gravity
A team of engineers studying the 500-year-old, backward writings of Leonardo da Vinci have found evidence that the Italian polymath was working out gravity a century before its foundations were…
How NASA’s DAVINCI probe will withstand the hellish conditions of Venus
Venus’s acidic, high-pressure atmosphere is one of the most inhospitable places in our solar system — and NASA is building a probe that can withstand it
NASA video shows you what it’s like to plunge through Venus’ atmosphere
NASA has shown what the upcoming DAVINCI mission to Venus will be facing with the release of a video visualization of the probe plunging through the atmosphere.
Mars? Old news. The next 10 years will be the decade of Venus
In recent decades, space agencies have mostly been focused on visiting Mars — but now their sights are shifting to Earth’s other planetary neighbor: Venus