NASA announces two new missions to Venus

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced two space missions to study Venus, while at NASA headquarters in Washington. — Reuters

NASA announced two new missions to Venus on Wednesday that will launch at the end of the decade and are aimed at learning how Earth's nearest planetary neighbor became a hellscape while our own thrived.

"These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world, capable of melting lead at the surface," said Bill Nelson, the agency's newly-confirmed administrator.