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Venus radar study reveals vast underground lava cave
Feb 10, 2026 (SPX)
The study, published in Nature Communications, relies on Synthetic Aperture Radar data collected between 1990 and 1992 by the Magellan spacecraft. Because Venus...
Venus' Cloud Aerosols Contain Reservoirs of Water and Iron
Sep 30, 2025 (SPX)
According to Mogul and his team, Venus' cloud aerosols contain iron sulfates and sulfuric acid in comparable masses (~ 20% by mass) and three-fold higher abunda...
Surviving hostile Venus conditions with new alloy and sensor technologies
Sep 11, 2025 (SPX)
The annual awards honor innovation with practical impact across global industries. "We work on problems that matter as opposed to ones that just interest us," s...
ESA Jupiter probe ready for Venus flyby to get some gravity juice.
Aug 27, 2025 (UPI)
ESA officials commonly refer to the space probe as Juice, which recently lost contact with Earth due to a "communication anomaly." The anomaly temporarily block...
Juice mission on track for Venus flyby after spacecraft communications restored
Aug 25, 2025 (SPX)
The signal loss occurred on 16 July when Juice failed to establish contact with ESA's Cebreros ground station in Spain. Backup attempts from the New Norcia stat...
Life on Venus? UK probe could reveal the answer
Jul 14, 2025 (SPX)
Over the past five years researchers have detected the presence of two potential biomarkers - the gases phosphine and ammonia - which on Earth can only be produ...
Venus atmosphere mapped over a decade using Himawari satellite data
Jul 02, 2025 (SPX)
Originally launched to monitor Earth's atmosphere, Himawari-8 and -9 carry Advanced Himawari Imagers (AHIs) capable of capturing Venus near the Earth's rim. The...
New Venus observation mission - World's first long-term planetary cubesat study by Korea's Institute for Basic Science and NanoAvionics
Jun 04, 2025 (SPX)
This long-term Venus observation initiative, the CLOVE project (Chasing the Long-term Variability of Our Nearest Neighbor Planet Venus) has been a research proj...
Venus May Host Active Tectonics Driven by Subsurface Plumes
May 15, 2025 (SPX)
The study, published in the journal Science Advances, used decades-old Magellan data to identify possible signs of active tectonics at or below many of Venus' c...
NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise
May 13, 2025 (SPX)
Scientists expected the outermost layer of Venus' crust would grow thicker and thicker over time given its apparent lack of forces that would drive the crust ba...
Could crustal churning power Venus volcanoes
Apr 01, 2025 (SPX)
"Nobody had really considered the possibility of convection in the crust of Venus before," said Slava Solomatov, professor of earth, environmental and planetary...
NASA Installs Advanced Heat Shield on Rocket Lab's Venus Probe
Feb 28, 2025 (SPX)
The space capsule, designed to investigate Venus' clouds for potential signs of life, will be safeguarded by NASA's Heatshield for Extreme Entry Environment Tec...
EnVision to uncover Venus secrets
Feb 04, 2025 (SPX)
Multiple space agencies will contribute to these instruments, including the Italian Space Agency (ASI), NASA, the French space agency (CNES), the German Aerospa...
NASA DAVINCI Mission's Many 'Firsts' to Unlock Venus' Hidden Secrets
Dec 17, 2024 (SPX)
Scheduled to launch in the early 2030s, DAVINCI will explore Venus with both a spacecraft and a descent probe. DAVINCI's probe will be the first in the 21st cen...
A rare Venus solar transit sheds light on exoplanet atmospheres
Dec 06, 2024 (SPX)
Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco (IA) tackled this question by simulating Venus as an exoplanet. Their findings, published in ...
Researchers conclude Venus was never suitable for liquid water or life
Dec 03, 2024 (SPX)
Using an analysis of the chemical composition of Venus's atmosphere, the team inferred that the planet's interior lacks the moisture necessary to sustain oceans...
Three Ways to Track Venusquakes, from Balloons to Satellites
Nov 28, 2024 (SPX)
Three approaches to studying quakes on Venus are currently plausible, write Garcia et al. Ground sensors like those used on the Moon and Mars can measure seismi...
Final Venus Flyby sets up Parker Solar Probe for closest sun skim
Nov 05, 2024 (SPX)
Parker's Venus flybys have become boons for new Venus science thanks to a chance discovery from its Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, or WISPR. The inst...
Impact craters on Venus revealed by new research
Oct 29, 2024 (SPX)
In a study focused on Venus' Haastte-baad Tessera, a geological feature covering over 900 miles, a research team led by Planetary Science Institute's Vicki Hans...
Old data yields new secrets as NASA's DAVINCI is prepped for Venus mission
Oct 18, 2024 (SPX)
Consisting of a flyby spacecraft and descent probe, DAVINCI will focus on a mountainous region called Alpha Regio, a possible ancient continent. Though a handfu...
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