Most missions have observed Venus from afar, as the planet's climate is hot enough to melt lead. Take a look at some of the best images ever captured of the "evil twin" planet.

NASA has announced that it will send two probes to Venus towards the end of the decade, ... and Pioneer Venus, which arrived there in 1980 and worked until 1992. ... Getty Images. Request Reprint ...

Update for 9 a.m. ET on May 9: According to the European Space Agency, the current reentry window for the Kosmos 482 Venus probe is 2:26 am ET on May 10 +/- 4.35 hours. This story was updated to ...

An artist’s rendering of NASA’s Pioneer Venus 2 spacecraft and four atmospheric probes, for a 1978 mission to learn more about the planet’s atmosphere.

The last Pioneer mission, Pioneer Venus, ... Space buffs will revel in this well-told tale of the little space probes that could. B&w photos. Agent, Michael Psaltis. (June 22) ...

VENUS is front and centre in this mesmerising photo snapped by the Parker Solar Probe on its way to study the Sun. The NASA probe took this image on its close flyby of the planet last summer.

If life does exist on Venus, NASA may have first detected it back in 1978. But the finding went unnoticed for 42 years. Life on Venus is still a long shot. But there's reason to take the idea ...