Temperatures on Venus hover around 870 degrees, but the second-closest planet to the sun got a little bit cooler recently when NASA showered it with Missy Elliott’s hit song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly).

Elliott's 1997 hit is the first-ever hip-hop song to be transmitted into space by NASA Aaron J. Thornton/WireImage Missy Elliott was one of the first women in hip-hop to make going to space look cool.

Venus is the artist's favorite planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's not every day that NASA approaches an artist and asks ...

NASA has sent a hip hop song to space for the very first time — and it chose the ineffable Melissa “Missy” Elliott as the first rap artist whose work will grace the cosmos. In a press release, NASA ...

NASA transmitted Missy Elliott’s 1997 hit “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” into space on Friday, July 12, which took about 14 minutes to get to its destination. The song was headed for Venus, where sulfuric ...