The Latest Breaking News from Venus

Europe's Jupiter mission JUICE has only one second a day to launch to hit the correct trajectory that will take it to the gas giant planet in eight years' time.

Europe's JUICE mission will launch on Thursday (April 13), but won't reach Jupiter until 2031. Why will it take so long?

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The eight-year, £1.4bn voyage into deep space will explore the frozen oceans of Ganymede, Europa and Callisto

In the coming decade, NASA and China plan to send the first crewed missions (astronauts and taikonauts) to Mars. 2033 could be just the year to do it.

Six-tonne probe named Juice to set out on 6.6 billion kilometre journey to the solar system’s biggest planet

After dramatic budget cuts stalled NASA's VERITAS Venus mission, the nonprofit Planetary Society urges Congress for a revival.

With no electricity or running water, Konstantinos Paleologoudias and his family established a fish factory in Port Kenny and started prawn trawling at nearby Venus Bay. Their legacy has been honoured with Pauly, a giant pelican sculpture overlooking the family's prawn fleet.

Three Venus missions in the Decade of Venus were planned to work in sync with each other. Scientists worry that delays to one are likely going to affect others.

Scientists have built the most detailed map of the distribution of volcanoes on Venus, which is also the most complete volcano map of all planets in the solar system.

Researchers have mapped out at least 85,000 volcanoes on Venus' surface, and recent findings suggest that some of them are likely active.