Pioneer Venus Multiprobe Launched 40 Years Ago Today to Study Venus
On August 8, 1978, the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe spacecraft launched to study Venus, a planet that has an atmosphere 100 times denser than Earth’s atmosphere…
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The Clouds of Venus Could Have Conditions Conducive to Microbial Life
In the search for extraterrestrial life, scientists have turned over all sorts of rocks. Mars, for example, has geological features that suggest it once had…
Engineers Are Working on Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments (AREE)
Scientists are working on a rover that might be able to better explore Venus. The planet’s hellish atmosphere creates pressures that would crush most submarines….
NASA CubeSat Mission Receives Funding to Solve Venusian Mystery
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has received funding to advance a CubeSat mission concept revealing the nature of the mysterious ultraviolet absorber in the uppermost…
New Research From NASA Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable
New research from NASA suggests that Venus may have had a shallow liquid-water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of…
New Research Sheds Light on the Evolutionary Path That Enabled Life on Earth
A new study from the University of British Columbia reveals that the early loss of radioactive heat-producing elements such as uranium and potassium helped put…
Venus Transit Reveals Clues about the Venusian Atmosphere
Astronomers used the Venus transit to make measurements of how the Venusian atmosphere absorbs different kinds of light, revealing clues to what elements are layered…
NASA Study Shows ICMEs Can Have Profound Effects On Unprotected Planets
Using data from Venus Express, researchers show how the impact of a slow Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection (ICME) can have profound effects on planets without…
Mysterious Holes in the Atmosphere of Venus
New research investigates the mysterious holes discovered by ESA’s Venus Express on the nightside of Venus’s ionosphere, finding evidence that the sun’s magnetic field lines…
Rainbow-Like Light Phenomenon Observed on Venus for the First Time
Researchers have imaged a glory on Venus – a rainbow-like light phenomenon observed on cloud tops that helps to identify the components of the planet’s…
Planet-Sized Space Weather Explosions Discovered at Venus
Using data from the European Space Agency’s Venus Express, astronomers have discovered planet-sized space weather explosions at Venus. Researchers recently discovered that a common space…
Researchers Confirm the Existence of a Circumsolar Dust Ring Near Venus
Using data from NASA’s twin STEREO spacecrafts, scientists have confirmed the existence of a circumsolar dust ring that encircles the Sun and closely follows the…
ESA’s Venus Express Reveals Increasing Wind Speeds on Venus
Using the Venus Monitoring Camera, scientists tracked the movements of distinct cloud features in the atmosphere of Venus over a period of 10 Venusian years,…
Scientists View Changes in Venus’s Ionosphere
Scientists were able to study the deformation of the sheath of electrons and ions enveloping Venus for the first time. In rare events, the sheath…
Mysterious Cold Layer Discovered in the Atmosphere of Venus
Based on a new analysis of compiled data from ESA’s Venus Express, scientists have uncovered a very chilly layer high in the Venus’s atmosphere with…
SDO’s HD Video of 2012 Venus Transit
In case you missed it, here is video footage of the 2012 Venus transit from the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the…
Arc of Venus May Reveal Secrets about Earth’s Sister Planet
With the Venus transit set to occur, researchers will also be studying the Arc of Venus to better under why our sister planet’s atmosphere evolved…
Venus Moves Between the Earth and the Sun on June 5, 2012
Tomorrow, June 5, 2012, will provide astronomers and enthusiasts with a chance to view a very rare phenomenon known as the Venus Transit, which doesn’t…