Aerospace engineers at the University of Illinois have published new findings showing that nitrogen-rich atmospheres, like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Europe's most advanced interplanetary space probe lost contact with Earth for nearly a full day leading up to a crucial flyby of ...

Venus is one of the most hostile environments in the solar system, with temperatures hot enough to melt lead and atmospheric ...

The soon-to-reenter Soviet Cosmos 482 Venus probe is getting increased attention by satellite trackers – and new imagery provides some interesting details. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 5, 1982, the Soviet Union's Venera 14 spacecraft landed on Venus! [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...

Hatsune Miku is being retired. After more than a decade in orbit, Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft has officially gone silent. The mission—designed to study Venus’s atmosphere—was declared complete by JAXA ...

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An exceptionally heavy interplanetary probe is on an eight-year journey to Jupiter, using the gravity of Earth and Venus to propel it on its path toward the gas giant. Just weeks before its scheduled ...

The discovery was made by re-analyzing radar data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft from the early 1990s. This finding confirms long-held theories about the existence of subsurface volcanic features on ...

Bellcomm, Inc Technical Library Collection, Accession XXXX-0093, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. The Venus Probe was a plan to gather data on the atmosphere and surface of ...

Beginning at the dawn of the Space Age in the late 1950s, the Soviets worked to design and construct a series of Venus probes. And for almost 30 years, they built and flew the interplanetary ...