Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Prepares for Festive Venus Flyby
Solar Orbiter is getting ready for the first of many gravity-assist flybys of Venus on December 27, to start bringing it closer to the Sun…
Solar Orbiter is getting ready for the first of many gravity-assist flybys of Venus on December 27, to start bringing it closer to the Sun…
University of Delaware professors from astronomy, international relations, and psychology say what signs of life on Venus means for earthlings. The planet Venus has arguably…
The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Venus on October 15, 2020, as the spacecraft passed the planet for a gravity assist maneuver….
On September 14, 2020, a new planet was added to the list of potentially habitable worlds in the Solar System: Venus. Phosphine, a toxic gas…
The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission is getting ready to fly by Venus. It will make a close approach to the planet on October 15, 2020, at…
Study shows the destabilizing effect of the giant gas planet. Venus might not be a sweltering, waterless hellscape today, if Jupiter hadn’t altered its orbit…
Considering what we know about the key ingredients for life’s formation on Earth, here are three explanations for how this process may have occurred on…
Update (January 28, 2021): New research indicates it was ordinary sulfur dioxide that was detected, rather than phosphine. An international team of astronomers recently announced the discovery…
An international team of researchers has found that some of the oldest terrain on Venus, known as tesserae, have layering that seems consistent with volcanic…
[On Monday, scientific research was published showing phosphine, a possible signature of life, present in the atmosphere of Venus. The following is NASA’s announcement related…
Update (January 28, 2021): New research indicates it was ordinary sulfur dioxide that was detected, rather than phosphine. An international team of astronomers, led by…
An international team of astronomers today announced the discovery of a rare molecule — phosphine — in the clouds of Venus. This detection could point…
Update (January 28, 2021): New research indicates it was ordinary sulfur dioxide that was detected, rather than phosphine. Astronomers May Have Found a Signature of…
What’s Up for September? The Moon with Mars and Venus, and a star with a planet…that wasn’t. On September 6th, you’ll find the Moon extremely…
One has a thick poisonous atmosphere, one has hardly any atmosphere at all, and one is just right for life to flourish – but it…
ETH researchers used computer simulations to classify the current activity of corona structures on the surface of Venus. To their surprise, they found a previously…
New 3D model provides evidence that Venus is churning inside. A new study identified 37 recently active volcanic structures on Venus. The study provides some…
Under consideration to become the next Discovery Program mission, VERITAS would reveal the inner workings of Earth’s mysterious “twin.” Imagine Earth. Now fill the skies…