From Temperate World to Acidic Hothouse: How Massive Volcanism May Have Altered Venus’ Climate
Venus may have been transformed from a temperate and wet world to the acidic hothouse it is today with help from vast volcanic activity lasting…
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EnVision Mission: Readying Spacecraft To Surf Venus’ Hot, Thick Atmosphere
EnVision, a project of the European Space Agency (ESA), is a mission to Venus that will perform optical, spectral and radar mapping of Earth’s sister…
Student-Built, Dime-Sized Instrument Is Venus-Bound on NASA’s DAVINCI Space Probe
Scheduled to launch in the late 2020s, NASA’s DAVINCI mission will investigate the origin, evolution, and present state of
NASA’s DAVINCI Space Probe To Plunge Through Hellish Atmosphere of Venus
Last year, NASA selected the DAVINCI mission as part of its Discovery program. It will investigate the origin, evolution, and present state of Venus in…
5 Surprising Facts About the Planet Venus
How much do you know about the planet Venus? Venus resembles the planet earth so much they’re called sister planets because of similarity of size…
Why Venus Rotates, Slowly, Despite Sun’s Powerful Gravitational Pull
The planet’s atmosphere explains the gravity of the situation. Venus, Earth’s sister planet, would likely not rotate, if not for its soupy, fast-moving atmosphere. Instead,…
Mysterious Secret of Venus May Be Hidden in the Heat of the Night
Despite being close to Earth and having nearly the same size, Venus is another world. Underneath its thick mantle of acid sulfuric clouds, at the…
Fine Tuning the James Webb Space Telescope, a Different View of Venus [Video]
Fine-tuning the James Webb Space Telescope, a different view of Venus, and the science on an upcoming space station resupply mission … a few of…
Parker Solar Probe Captures Stunning New Images of Venus – Faint Glow Detected From the Planet’s Surface
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space. Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is…
SOFIA Observes Venus: A Delicate Dance to Understand Our Hot and Cloudy Twin’s Atmosphere
SOFIA recently completed a new set of observations of Venus to study the chemical composition of the planet’s atmosphere. Observing Venus was particularly challenging. Venus…
High-Speed Impacts May Have Shaped Venus’ History – And Explain Why It Is Uninhabitable
New modeling suggests fast collisions could explain why Earth is habitable while Venus is not. New modeling suggests large, high-speed impacts during Venus’ early history…
Alien Life? Acid-Neutralizing Life-Forms Could Make Habitable Pockets in Venus’ Clouds
A new study shows it’s theoretically possible. The hypothesis could be tested soon with proposed Venus-bound missions. It’s hard to imagine a more inhospitable world…
Privately-Funded Venus Probe Will Search for Life in Clouds of Sulfuric Acid on Earth’s Sibling Planet
Report led by MIT scientists details a suite of privately-funded missions to hunt for life on Earth’s sibling planet. With multiple rovers landed and a…
State-of-the-Art Climate Model Shows That Venus Could Never Have Had Oceans
Whether Venus, one of the Solar System’s four terrestrial planets, ever had oceans remains an unsolved puzzle. Although an American study hypothesized that it did,…
DAVINCI: NASA’s Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble Gases, Chemistry and Imaging
Launching in 2029, NASA’s Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry and Imaging (DAVINCI) mission will bring a rich suite of instruments to Venus…
Ten Astonishing Mysteries of Venus
The surface of Venus is utterly inhospitable for life: barren, dry, crushed under an atmosphere about 90 times the pressure of Earth’s, and roasted by…
New Findings Suggest Venus Never Had Oceans, Conditions Needed for Life
Astrophysicists led by the UNIGE and the NCCR PlanetS have investigated the past of Venus to find out whether Earth’s sister planet once had oceans….
First Images and Videos From the Double Venus Flyby
Two spacecraft made historic flybys of Venus this month, and both sent back sci-fi-type views of the mysterious, cloud-shrouded planet. The Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo…
