Rocket Lab USA, Inc. ("Rocket Lab" or "the Company"), a leading launch and space systems company, today announced its record turnaround of two Earth return missions in two months with its latest ...

NASA’s DAVINCI mission is set to revolutionize our understanding of Venus. This daring expedition will send a probe plunging ...

FILE - This image made available by NASA shows the planet Venus made with data produced by the Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter from 1990 to 1994. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP) CAPE CANAVERAL ...

Data gaps are filled with Pioneer Venus Orbiter data, or a constant mid-range value. Simulated color is used to enhance small ...

It is not known where the object came down (Alamy/PA) Launched in 1972 by the former Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one ...

The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 in 1972, one of a series of Venus missions. But it never made it out of Earth orbit because of a rocket malfunction. Most of it came ...

The Pioneer 12 probe may have been first to map Venus using radar ... jettisoned from the main spacecraft after it was clear it would not leave Earth orbit. It is predicted to reenter Earth ...

U.S. mission to reach the surface of our sister planet was Pioneer Venus, over four decades ago. That mission comprised an orbiter and four probes that descended into the hellish depths of the ...