Peptides may persist in Venusian clouds
In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have long focused on one key ingredient: liquid water.…
The Diamond Moon and Other Astronomical Events to See in September 2026
The proximity to the waning moon offers a good opportunity for spotting them. To the naked eye, they…
Something Is Still Moving Beneath Venus’s Scorching Surface
New research suggests something is still moving beneath Venus’s scorching surface. Giant rift valleys may be evidence that…
What’s Up: August 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
A solar eclipse, the Perseids, bright Venus after sunset, and a deep partial lunar eclipse highlight August’s skywatching.…
Photographer Captures Rare Shot of Venus and the ISS Together in One Frame
For a split-second, the ISS whizzes past Venus at an incredible speed. | Photo by AJ Smadi Photographer…
China plans to hit an asteroid with a Mach 26 projectile in planet defence test
China’s first planetary defence mission appears to be far more ambitious than Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart),…
Don’t Miss Tonight’s Classic Summer Sight — Venus And A Crescent Moon
Topline Skywatchers are advised to look to the west shortly after sunset on Friday, July 17, and at…
Don’t miss Venus and moon conjunction that will be visible to the naked eye
NASA shared new details about its Moon Base strategy, outlining plans to establish a long-term human presence near…
Soviet spacecraft built to land on Venus in 1972 spent 53 years orbiting Earth and finally returned without burning up |
A Soviet spacecraft designed to land on Venus in 1972 finally completed its journey more than half a…
The Soviet Union launched nearly 30 spacecraft at Venus and became the only nation ever to land on its surface and send back pictures — color photographs of a scorched volcanic plain under a yellow-green sky, shot in the few dozen minutes before the heat and pressure destroyed every probe that took them.
Exploring Venus is extremely challenging. A landing probe or lander must withstand crushing pressure, with atmospheric pressure roughly…
America’s only landing on Venus was an accident — in 1978 NASA dropped four cone-shaped probes into the Venusian atmosphere, none built to survive hitting the ground, and one of them struck the surface, kept transmitting for 67 minutes and 37 seconds, and very likely still sits there today, the only American craft ever to land on Venus.
The Soviet Union spent the 1960s and 1970s building Venus landers, titanium tanks engineered to survive the solar…
For 85 years after its discovery, Pluto was little more than a dot in a telescope — until 2015, when a piano-sized NASA spacecraft that had traveled more than three billion miles flew past and revealed a world with a 1,000-kilometer heart-shaped glacier of frozen nitrogen and a surface so young it should not exist.
NASA’s New Horizons Explained: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which left Earth nearly two decades ago and has transformed…