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,…
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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 completely 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…
Solar Orbiter Captures Venus’ Glare During Close Pass of Our Solar System’s Hottest Planet
On August 9, 2021, ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft passed within 4,967 miles (7,995 kilometers) of the surface of planet Venus. In the days leading up…
Experience the Sights and Sounds of an Extraordinary Venus Flyby
ESA’s Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo spacecraft made a historic Venus flyby earlier this week, passing by the planet within 33 hours of each other and…
BepiColombo Spacecraft Skims Past Venus
The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Venus on August 10, 2021, as the spacecraft passed the planet for a gravity assist maneuver….
Double Venus Flyby! Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo Set To Make Space History
Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo are set to make space history with two Venus flybys just 33 hours apart on August 9 and 10, 2021. The…
Space-Based Infrared Imaging Reveals the Nighttime Weather on Venus
Little is known about the weather at night on Venus as the absence of sunlight makes imaging difficult. Now, researchers have devised a way to…
