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The U.S. space agency NASA has announced plans to launch two new missions to the planet Venus by 2030.

NASA announced two new missions to Venus on June 2 that will launch at the end of the decade and are aimed at learning how Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour became a hellscape while our own thrived.

For decades, scientists who study Earth’s neighbor Venus have watched with dismay as NASA sends mission after mission to Mars. The last time the United States visited Venus was in 1989, when it sent the spacecraft Magellan to map the topography of the “hellish” planet. Although Venus is roughly the size of Earth, the planet is fundamentally different, encased in a dense, toxic atmosphere of ...

The two space probes will study Venus, a scorching hot world that may have once been like Earth. NASA chose the Venus missions over other candidates, such as trips to the moons of Jupiter and Neptune.

After three decades, NASA's heading back to the "inferno-like" planet.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has cosmically grand plans for the agency, including a trip to Venus, an advanced look at the Earth using new three-dimensional technology and landing humans on Mars.

Space missions DAVINCI+ and VERITAS to be sent to earth’s nearest planetary neighbor between 2028 and 2030.

The VERITAS and DAVINCI+ will aim to understand how and why Venus became supremely hot, even when it shares so many characteristics to Earth.

NASA just announced two new missions that will study the lost habitable world of Venus.

NASA sending missions to Venus for the first time in 30 years