Venus is nearly the same size and mass as Earth ... might seem a far cry from an aerial robot grabbing data in another planet’s atmosphere. But we already put a seismometer on Mars.

Mars gets a lot of attention from earthlings these days, but recently Venus is coming under the spotlight, with NASA, its European counterpart ESA, and New Zealand spaceflight company Rocket Lab ...

Your support makes all the difference. Balloon-based robot vehicles, such as the Venus Atmosphere Maneuverable Platform, work akin to an airship. These hybrid machines use buoyancy and aerodynamic ...

ROBOTS that mimic the Venus flytrap could run on live insects and spiders, snatching and digesting them for fuel. Now two prototypes have been developed that employ smart materials to rapidly ...

The Rutgers robot had to meet certain specifications to ensure that it would closely mimic a live venus flytrap. Venus flytraps are fascinating, creepy carnivores. They literally trap flies and ...

Meanwhile, Venus, hot and poisonous ... The phrase "heat-stable" is important, given the planet's habit of killing any robot that lands on its sizzling hot surface. Rafi joined Live Science ...

A new robotic grabber is ripped straight from the plant world. The device, made with a severed piece of a Venus flytrap, can grasp tiny, delicate objects, researchers report January 25 in Nature ...

A NASA illustration depicting a volcanic region called the Quetzalpetlatl Corona in Venus’ southern hemisphere. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Peter Rubin Even robots die quickly on Venus.

Whereas the robots would explore the surface for 50 days (their full lifetime), the aircraft would probe Venus' atmosphere between 100 km (62 miles) and 60 km (37 mi) above the surface—i.e ...

Table of Contents A tale of two planets The devil is in the timescale Relevance beyond the solar system New missions, new data When you look at Venus today, it doesn’t seem like a very welcoming ...