Venus’s upper atmosphere, with Earthlike gravity and pressure, may allow feasible floating habitats even as its surface ...
Venus just lost its last active spacecraft, but more might be coming in a few years. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration ...
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA) declared its Akatsuki spacecraft dead on Tuesday (Oct. 28), more than a ...
Giant underground lava tunnels have been discovered on Venus, our inhospitable, cloud-wrapped neighbor. Their huge size is peculiar and has forced scientists to discard their pet theories on how ...
The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Venus on 10 August 2021 as the spacecraft passed the planet for a gravity assist manoeuvre. The image was taken at 13:57:56 UTC by ...
This artist’s concept of the large Quetzalpetlatl Corona located in Venus’ southern hemisphere depicts active volcanism and a subduction zone, where the foreground crust plunges into the planet’s ...
In July 2020, Parker Solar Probe’s wide-field camera photographed a bright rim around the edge of the planet that may be nightglow — light emitted by oxygen atoms high in the atmosphere when they ...
The co-founder of OceanGate—the expedition company involved in the recent Titanic wreck submersible disaster—is now setting his sights on something even more ambitious than the bottom of the Atlantic: ...