A study suggests that Venus' volcanic "pancake domes" push the planet's crust down, forming bulges toward the surface. This ...

Our outer space crafts and space coloring pages have been such big hits, I wanted to share a new set of Planet Coloring Pages ...

the Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy, or VERITAS, spacecraft will be busy mapping the planet’s surface from orbit. Those images, plus detailed information ...

It was originally one of the Soviet Union's Venera series of probes intended to explore the planet Venus. However, shortly after launch on March 31, 1972 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in what is ...

A rare celestial event is underway. From now through Friday, the planet Venus will be visible in both the morning and evening skies above the Northern Hemisphere. This happens a few days before ...

Kosmos 482 had been bound for Venus but never reached its destination. Russian space agency Roscosmos on Saturday said a Soviet space probe that took off in March 1972 to explore the planet Venus ...

Now, she’s leading the first privately funded mission to Venus, hoping the planet’s dense ... to build a DNA-like molecule that could store information in harsh conditions.

A failed Soviet Venus lander's long space odyssey has come to an end. The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for ... launched the first big batch of ...

On March 27 and March 31, in 1972, the Soviet Union launched two new spacecraft bound for the planet Venus. The first, Venera 8, became the second spacecraft to successfully land on our sister planet ...

It's too early to know where the Venus capsule will reenter Earth's atmosphere, much less where it will land. Most of the planet is water, so it's highly unlikely that the capsule will strike ...

Experts said ahead of time that some if not all of it might come crashing down, given it was built to withstand a landing on Venus, the solar system’s hottest planet. The chances of anyone ...

open image in gallery This photo provided by researcher Jane Greaves shows the planet Venus, seen from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Akatsuki probe in May 2016. (J. Greaves/Cardiff ...