Rocket Lab's concept, which did not make the cut, came in under the $4 billion mark and would mean samples returned from Mars ...

A company that's slated to launch the world's first-ever private mission to Venus is getting ready for the planet's super-hot ...

Led by Rocket Lab of Long Beach, California, and their partners at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Rocket Lab's Venus mission will be the first private mission to the planet.

The two innermost planets, Venus and Mercury, will shine together low in the western sky at sunset on March 10. Here's how to ...

Seven planets are on display in the night sky at the end of February, but some will be harder to spot than others. Here’s ...

"Clouds of Venus" chronicles the United States' early attempts to explore the planet Venus through the Mariner spacecraft missions. The film details the launch of Mariner 1 and its subsequent failure, ...

Heads up, skywatchers: a planet alignment is up for viewing this weekend, with Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars all visible ...

February is the best month to see Venus. But clouds, storms might make it hard to spot in Mississippi on Valentine's Day. How stargazers see it.

"From developing small robots that could swim through the oceans of other worlds to growing space habitats from fungi, this program continues to change the possible." ...

Star would be the first private mission to another planet and the first in over 30 years to directly measure Venus’s clouds.

During the first Trump administration, NASA developed The Great American Space Odyssey, a nuclear propulsion-enabled crewed mission to Mars that included a Venus flyby. As the president suggested ...

NASA/Brandon Torres Navarrete Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley, Bohdan Wesely, right, ...