Rocket Lab delays its Venus atmospheric probe missionThe next launch opportunity may be in January 2025. By S. Dent, 06.02.2023
Russia withdraws from European spaceport in response to sanctionsThe country has also dropped US involvement in a Venus probe.By J. Fingas, 02.28.2022
NASA will send two missions to Venus by 2030DAVINCI+ and VERITAS graduate from the agency's Discovery Program.By I. Bonifacic, 06.02.2021
NASA's Parker Solar Probe detected natural radio emissions from VenusThey could help understand how Venus' atmosphere changes.By J. Fingas, 05.08.2021
Solar Orbiter probe makes its first Venus flybyIt will collect valuable data on its way to the Sun.By J. Fingas, 12.27.2020
Astronomers detect possible signs of life in Venus's atmosphereThey believe alien microbes produced high levels of the chemical phosphine.By C. Fisher, 09.14.2020
NASA is crowdsourcing a sensor that can survive VenusIt would play a crucial role in a future rover.By J. Fingas, 02.18.2020
NASA gives four projects $3 million to develop potential space missionsIt's all part of the agency's Discovery Program. By I. Bonifacic, 02.14.2020
18The Hayden Planetarium’s new show celebrates unmanned space probesCassini never looked this good.By K. Naudus, 01.21.2020
NASA goes Steampunk for its future Venus probesThe rover uses wind and a mechanical computer to thrive in extreme conditions. By S. Dent, 08.28.2017
NASA figured out how to make Venus-resistant electronicsThe experiment's oscillator lasted 521 hours in a test chamber. By T. Seppala, 02.08.2017
Gravity wave ripples across Venus' hellish atmosphereSpotted by Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft, it was likely whipped up by 250 mph winds.By S. Dent, 01.17.2017
Venus might still have active volcanoesThe planet's volcanoes might not be sleeping giants.By M. Moon, 10.19.2016
Venus may have supported life before EarthClimate models show the hellish planet may have held liquid water for billions of years.By S. Dent, 08.08.2016
Venus' electric wind stripped its atmosphere of waterAs if the planet wasn't already hostile to humans.By J. Fingas, 06.21.2016
Venus probe's first detailed results reveal strange cloudsAkatsuki nearly didn't make it, but it's already shedding light on our nearest planetary neighbor.By J. Fingas, 04.17.2016
Japan's Akatsuki probe successfully makes it into Venus' orbitIt's been circling the sun since its failed attempt in 2010. By M. Moon, 12.09.2015
Japan's Venus probe is about to take another shotThe Akatsuki spacecraft will try once more to get into Venus' orbit -- watch live.By J. Fingas, 12.06.2015