The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...

Venus (true color & enhanced contrast) as seen by the Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974. (Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Exactly why Venus has such a dense atmosphere is also unknown. Its atmosphere ...

Out of the raw data transmitted back to earth from Russia’s Venus 4 and the U.S.’s Mariner 5 spacecraft, scientists last week pieced together a picture of Venus as a place of unbearable heat ...