A recently analyzed transmission from the probe captured the clearest view of Venus’ hostile surface ever recorded. The ...

Venus, Earth's hostile twin, is growing more unpredictable for upcoming space missions. Extreme heat, crushing pressure, and ...

A new study finally uncovers what powers Venus's super-fast winds. Scientists found that a daily thermal tide—created by the ...

In this episode, we trace the dramatic arc of the Soviet Venera program - a 23-year push that turned Venus from a romantic mystery into the most hostile world ever reached by human hands. We start ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft captured Earth and moon images during a gravity-assist flyby, confirming instrument functionality and maintaining course for its 2029 encounter with asteroid Apophis.

Venus just lost its last active spacecraft, but more might be coming in a few years. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Akatsuki mission orbiting Venus was declared dead last week after ...

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.

The connection between Earth and Venus has officially come to an end with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) declaration of the Akatsuki spacecraft as deceased. This announcement ...

On Nov. 24, Mercury retrograde will conjunct Venus in Scorpio, bringing the past back around in an unexpected way. Discover ...

We live in changing times. While we once flippantly threw villains to the lions, now we seek to fire them into the sun.

SETI’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ – a space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR’s search for ...