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A flurry of upcoming missions may uncover whether the harsh world was once an Earth-like oasis that could have harbored life.

/PRNewswire/ -- NASA recently announced the selection of Goddard Space Flight Center's DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry,...

Share The DAVINCI+ probe falls toward Venus, sampling the atmosphere as it goes, in an artist’s concept. NASA GSFC; CI LABS/MICHAEL LENTZ AND OTHERS Was Venus once a good home for life? NASA missions aim to find out Jun. 9, 2021 , 3:35 PM When NASA announced last week it would spend $1 billion developing two new missions to Venus—the agency’s first visits in decades to Earth’s hothouse twin—planetary scientists were elated, and not just because a long wait had ended. A dramatic shift in thinking about the planet over the past few years has made a visit even more enticing. Ve...

Despite the best efforts of scientists eager to study Earth’s sister world, U.S. efforts to send a dedicated spacecraft to Venus have languished. An imminent announcement could decide whether it will be years—or decades—before we go back

Despite the best efforts of scientists eager to study Earth’s sister world, U.S. efforts to send a dedicated spacecraft to Venus languished—until NASA made a surprising announcement