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Venus is so tantalizingly close to being a twin of Earth.

The Soviet Luna programme explored the Moon throughout the 60s and 70s, returning the first images of the surface and the lunar far side.

Luna 25 will attempt to land on the Moon the same week as India's Chandrayaan 3 probe.

A retrospective article about PC and MS-DOS videogame Noctis, created by Alessandro Ghignola, in which players explore …

An image of the surface of Venus has gone viral on Reddit, but the image is not entirely as it appears.

“Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.” -Sarah Zettel

20 February 2021, 10:06 am EST By Space exploration is going well this 2020 and 2021, especially with the arrival of three Mars visitors: the Hope Mars orbiter from UAE, the Tianwen-1 rover from China, and the Perseverance land rover from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States, delivering their own images of Mars from space and the land. But, back in the 1980s, a Russian lander was able to visit Venus, the second planet from the Sun, and took some shots o...

Such a system could run circles around the first human-made object to reach the Venusian regolith, Venera 7. After their first few attempts with more fragile landers failed catastrophically, Soviet engineers realized that Earth’s evil twin has surface pressures that can crush a submarine, so they massively overbuilt their next probe. “It was basically an inch-thick titanium sphere,” says Don P. Mitchell, a computer programmer and historian of Russia’s Venus exploration. “They were lik...