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Climate model shows that Venus could never have had oceans
Oct 18, 2021 (SPX)
Using a state-of-the-art climate model, the research team has come up with an alternative scenario to the American study. Shortly after its birth 4.5 billion ye...
Study finds photosynthesis in Venus' clouds could support life
Oct 01, 2021 (SPX)
Biochemistry Professor Rakesh Mogul is the lead author of the study, Potential for Phototrophy in Venus' Clouds, published online this weekin the journal Astrob...
Sights and sounds of a Venus flyby
Aug 16, 2021 (ESA)
The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft flew past Venus on 9 August at a distance of 7995 km, while the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission skimmed past at just 552 km f...
During close pass, Solar Orbiter captures Venus' glare
Aug 16, 2021 (ESA)
The images show Venus approaching from the left while the Sun is off camera to the upper right. The planet's nightside, the part hidden from the Sun, appears as...
BepiColombo skims past Venus
Aug 11, 2021 (ESA)
The image was taken at 13:57:56 UTC by the Mercury Transfer Module's Monitoring Camera 3, when the spacecraft was 1573 km from Venus. Closest approach of 552 km...
New evidence of recent Venusian volcanism
Aug 11, 2021 (SPX)
In the 31 years since NASA's Magellan spacecraft entered orbit around Venus, researchers have been using the mission's radar images, topography and gravity mapp...
ESA gets ready for double Venus flyby
Aug 03, 2021 (ESA)
The double flyby also offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the Venus environment from different locations at same time and, moreover, in locations that ...
The weather forecast for Venus
Jul 22, 2021 (SPX)
Earth and Venus share a lot in common. They are similar in size and mass, they're both within the same orbital region known as the habitable zone (thought to su...
New research suggests explosive volcanic activity on Venus
Jul 14, 2021 (SPX)
Last autumn, scientists revealed that phosphine was found in trace amounts in the planet's upper atmosphere. That discovery promised the slim possibility that p...
Life could exist in the clouds of Jupiter but not Venus
Jun 29, 2021 (SPX)
For some decades, space exploration missions have looked for evidence of life beyond Earth where we know that large bodies of water, such as lakes or oceans, ex...
'Pack ice' tectonics reveal Venus' geological secrets
Jun 22, 2021 (SPX)
"We've identified a previously unrecognized pattern of tectonic deformation on Venus, one that is driven by interior motion just like on Earth," says Paul Byrne...
Crustal block tectonics offer clues to Venus' geology, study finds
Jun 22, 2021 (SPX)
"We have identified a previously unrecognized pattern of tectonic deformation on Venus, one that is driven by interior motion just like on Earth," said Paul Byr...
NASA is returning to Venus to learn how it became a hot poisonous wasteland
Jun 15, 2021 (SPX)
I'm a planetary scientist and a self-confessed Venus evangelist, and here's why I'm so excited that humanity is going back to Venus. This is the first time sinc...
ESA selects revolutionary Venus EnVision mission
Jun 11, 2021 (ESA)
"A new era in the exploration of our closest, yet wildly different, Solar System neighbour awaits us," says Gunther Hasinger, ESA Director of Science. "Together...
NASA to collaborate on ESA's new Venus mission
Jun 11, 2021 (SPX)
With significantly higher resolution than that of NASA's Magellan mission, which captured images of Venus in the early 1990s, VenSAR will improve our understand...
NASA is returning to Venus
Jun 06, 2021 (The Conversation)
It had long been thought there was no life on Venus, due to its extremely high temperatures. But late last year, scientists studying the planet's atmosphere ann...
NASA to explore divergent fate of Earth's mysterious twin with Goddard's DAVINCI+
Jun 03, 2021 (SPX)
However, scientists think that in an earlier time, Venus may have been more like Earth, a world with water oceans that was potentially habitable for life, perha...
NASA selects 2 missions to study Venus
Jun 03, 2021 (SPX)
These investigations are the final selections from four mission concepts NASA picked in February 2020 as part of the agency's Discovery 2019 competition. Follow...
NASA announces two new missions to Venus
Jun 02, 2021 (AFP)
"These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world, capable of melting lead at the surface," said Bill Nelson, the agency'...
Going up is the new move on Venus
May 13, 2021 (SPX)
13th May 2021 - On a slow rotating planet such as Venus, but with constant winds beyond the most devastating hurricanes on Earth, any light breeze might be part...
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