"We believe that continuing such activities will further expand our horizon in the field of planetary science." ...

However, its conceptual innovations, engineering challenges, and historical context offer a fascinating glimpse into the ...

On July 22, 1972, a spacecraft landed on Venus! The Soviet space probe Venera 8 was the second spacecraft to successfully ...

One of the brightest and most colorful stars in the sky and the most brilliant planet are on stage in the early morning dawn ...

On May 14, 2025 Venus Aerospace became the first in the world to successfully fly a high-thrust rotating detonation rocket ...

Could microbial life be drifting in the clouds of Venus? With unexplained signs of phosphine and ammonia scientists are developing a bold new space mission to find out. A UK-backed space mission may s ...

In 2018, t he National Air and Space Museum began renovating its facade and all 20 of its galleries—and on Monday, July 28, ...

The answer to whether tiny bacterial life-forms really do exist in the clouds of Venus could be revealed once and for all by a UK-backed mission.

While many believe it’s just a comet, a new scientific theory suggests something far more dramatic: this could be alien ...

A UK-based mission is aiming to settle, once and for all, whether life exists on Venus. The mission plans to send a probe to the planet in search of microbial life, not on the surface, of course ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, modified the backup Mariner 4 spacecraft to operate closer to the Sun, and on June 14, 1967, NASA launched Mariner 5 on a 127-day ...