ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has just completed its last phase of testing in Europe and is ready to be shipped to its launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. One and a half years after ...

A complex and far-flung network of ground tracking stations will be intently ‘watching’ tonight’s sky waiting to acquire the critical first signal back to Earth from Venus Express, scheduled to lift ...

Much like Earth, Venus has an ozone layer high in its atmosphere, according to new data received by the European Space Agency. The ozone was detected by instruments on the agency’s Venus Express ...

DARMSTADT, Germany — A European spacecraft moved into orbit around Venus on Tuesday, successfully completing a critical stage of a mission to explore the hostile climate and atmosphere of Earth's ...

TEST BURN: Europe's Venus Express probe has successfully tested its main engine, which will be used to brake the spacecraft so that it can enter orbit around Earth's cloud-shrouded neighbor. The three ...

The European Space Agency's science program committee agreed to start work on Venus Express, a spacecraft that would reuse the design of the Mars Express spacecraft and should be ready for launch in ...