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Hubble to Use Moon as Mirror to See Venus Transit

May 08, 2012 (SPX)

This mottled landscape showing the impact crater Tycho is among the most violent-looking places on our moon. Astronomers didn't aim NASA's Hubble Space Telescop...

NASA Astrophysicist Sten Odenwald to Discuss Transit of Venus

Apr 27, 2012 (SPX)

The public is invited to a free lecture being held at the Library of Congress, about the rare Venus transit event. On June 5, 2012, the planet Venus will move a...

Venus Invades the Pleiades

Apr 12, 2012 (SPX)

This week the second planet from the sun will pass directly in front of the Pleiades star cluster. It's a rare sunset conjunction that's easy to find with the u...

A magnetic surprise for Venus Express

Apr 09, 2012 (ESA)

Venus is a rarity among planets - a world that does not internally generate a magnetic field. Despite the absence of a large protective magnetosphere, the near-...

Space Weather: Explosions on Venus

Mar 08, 2012 (SPX)

In the grand scheme of the solar system, Venus and Earth are almost the same distance from the sun. Yet the planets differ dramatically: Venus is some 100 times...

Counting down to the Transit of Venus

Mar 07, 2012 (SPX)

Three months before the last transit of Venus this century, scientists are gathering at the Observatoire de Paris to finalise their observation plans in a works...

A bad day on Venus gets even worse

Feb 29, 2012 (AFP)

Contrary to its alluring name, Venus is the planet from hell, with an atmosphere so hot, toxic and heavy that any visitor would risk being simultaneously melted...

Spacecraft sees slowing of Venus rotation

Feb 10, 2012 (ESA)

ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has discovered that our cloud-covered neighbour spins a little slower than previously measured. Peering through the dense atmosph...