Sometimes, the best innovative ideas come from synthesizing two previous ones. We've reported before on the idea of having a ...

Venus, long called Earth's 'evil twin' for its toxic clouds and crushing heat, is drawing fresh global attention. After decades of neglect, five major missions from NASA, ESA, ISRO and Roscosmos are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 24, 1978, Venera 11 landed on Venus. Venera 11 was a robotic mission launched by the Soviet Union to explore Venus along ...

NASA’s DAVINCI — Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging — mission embodies the spirit of innovation and exploration that its namesake, Leonardo da Vinci, was famous ...

Planet Venus is one of the most fascinating places in the solar system, and the one most easily recognizable in the night sky. The true twin of planet Earth (no, it's not Mars), Venus has more things ...

A renewed analysis of radar data from Venus, collected by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft in the early 1990s, has revealed evidence of a large underground cavity formed by ancient lava flows—the first ...