Amid uncertainty over space agencies’ plans for future Venus exploration, enthusiasm for a private-sector mission grows. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

(CNN) — A satellite designed to study Venus from top to bottom and a trio of gravitational wave-surfing spacecraft are two of the latest missions that the European Space Agency has adopted. The agency ...

Our closest planetary neighbor Venus keeps leaking carbon and oxygen into space, mystifying scientists. Carbon and oxygen, among other gases, are being stripped from Venus' atmosphere after being ...

Giampiero Di Paolo, deputy CEO and senior vice president of observation, exploration and navigation at Thales Alenia Space (left) signed the contract with Carol Mundell, ESA science director. Credit: ...

A new study published in Nature Geoscience shows that volcanic activity is actively resurfacing the planet Venus. This new information is actually derived from archival data obtained three decades ago ...

Sometimes, artistic impressions of our solar system contain whimsical or difficult-to-explain oddities. In one case, though, the accidental inclusion of a moon of Venus in a space poster was accurate ...

HELSINKI — China has unveiled a long-term roadmap to guide its space science programs up to 2050, including a mission to collect a sample of the Venusian atmosphere. The Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

(CNN) — A piece of a Soviet vehicle that malfunctioned en route to Venus more than 50 years ago is due to crash back to Earth as soon as this week. Much about the piece of space debris, called Cosmos ...

Mysterious rocky exoplanet with cratered surface floating in front of a colorful cosmic nebula filled with glowing stars, galactic dust and bright light flares in deep outer space. Dramatic astronomy ...

If a super-powerful telescope had been trained on the morning star last week, it might have seen a tiny, spidery object all vanes and antennae, creep slowly past the blazing crescent of Venus. This ...

With the search for extraterrestrial life set to define much of 21st-century space science, one burning question researchers face in their planning is this: How far away is the nearest Earth-like ...