NASA's VERITAS orbiter and DAVINCI probe, and India's Shukrayaan orbiter will be sent to Venus to gather more data. "Recent results suggest that the atmospheric escape from Venus cannot fully ...

Paul McCartney’s “The Kiss of Venus” was partly inspired by a book chapter describing the inferior conjunction. And two upcoming NASA missions will put a spotlight on Venus, investigating ...

Venus hasn’t received nearly ... never mind the intense atmospheric pressure and sulfuric acid clouds. With this in mind, NASA has been experimenting with the concept of a completely mechanical ...

(Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Exactly why Venus has such a dense atmosphere is also unknown. Its atmosphere consists of 96.5% CO 2, with nitrogen and trace elements making up the rest of the ...

The partial disk of the northern hemisphere of Venus, as revealed by radar data from the Magellan orbiter. In the 1990s, Magellan saw patches of rugged terrain called tessera. A future lander ...

Convection processes beneath Venus' scorched surface may help explain the planet's many volcanoes, a new study reports.

For protection from the crushing atmospheric pressure—1,300 pounds per square ... some new and some old. NASA’s Venus test chambers from the Pioneer days simulated the surface temperature ...

Planetary scientist Lynn Carter, also with NASA, agrees: "Venus is a great ... temperatures and pressure. Add in the radiation protection from the thick atmosphere, and suddenly Venus looks ...

The first private spacecraft mission to Venus will combat the planet's hellish conditions with the aid of a novel woven heat shield called "HEEET." Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center in ...