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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Discovers Natural Radio Emission in Venus' Atmosphere
May 04, 2021 (SPX)
Born of similar processes, Earth and Venus are twins: both rocky, and of similar size and structure. But their paths diverged from birth. Venus lacks a magnetic...
How long is a day on Venus
Apr 30, 2021 (SPX)
Now, new observations from the safety of Earth are lifting the veil on some of Venus' most basic properties. By repeatedly bouncing radar off the planet's surfa...
Parker sees Venus orbital dust ring in 1st complete view
Apr 16, 2021 (SPX)
Parker Solar Probe's WISPR instrument - short for Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe - is designed to study the solar wind, the Sun's constantly outflowing mater...
Peering through the clouds of Earth's 'Evil Twin'
Apr 16, 2021 (USN)
"The puzzling part is, we expected to primarily image the Venusian clouds, but instead WISPR was able to peer through the clouds to image the surface," Mark Lin...
Life on Venus? First we need to know more about molecules in the atmosphere
Apr 13, 2021 (SPX)
Scientists have long conjectured that phosphine - a chemical compound made of one phosphorous atom surrounded by three hydrogen atoms (PH3) - may indicate evide...
Venus plots a comeback
Apr 01, 2021 (SPX)
From the 1950s to the late 1980s, Venus was a favored planet for scientists to study, writes Associate Editor Sam Lemonick. From our vantage point here on Earth...
Parker Solar Probe offers stunning view of Venus
Feb 25, 2021 (SPX)
Though Parker Solar Probe's focus is the Sun, Venus plays a critical role in the mission: The spacecraft whips by Venus a total of seven times over the course o...
Thick lithosphere casts doubt on plate tectonics in Venus's geologically recent past
Jan 29, 2021 (SPX)
For a study published in Nature Astronomy, the researchers used computer models to recreate the impact that carved out Mead crater, Venus's largest impact basin...
Purported phosphine on Venus more likely to be ordinary sulfur dioxide,
Jan 28, 2021 (SPX)
Since that initial claim, other science teams have cast doubt on the reliability of the phosphine detection. Now, a team led by researchers at the University of...
Back to Venus armed with laboratory findings
Jan 19, 2021 (SPX)
Venus is Earth's sister planet. It is almost exactly the same size and orbits on average only 40 million kilometres closer to the Sun. However, the two planets ...
Solar Orbiter prepares for festive Venus flyby
Dec 18, 2020 (ESA)
Just as the majority of us will remain safely at home under various COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures during what is traditionally a holiday period, the flyby...
Surprisingly little water has escaped to space from Venus
Nov 12, 2020 (SPX)
The thesis is built on analyses of how the solar wind, a stream of charged particles from the Sun, affects the Venusian atmosphere and causes atmospheric partic...
BepiColombo flies by Venus en route to Mercury
Oct 16, 2020 (ESA)
Launched 20 October 2018, the spacecraft needs nine gravity assist flybys - one at Earth, two at Venus and six at Mercury before entering orbit around the plane...
Venus flyby on the way to Mercury
Oct 15, 2020 (SPX)
On Saturday, October 20, 2018, the BepiColombo space probe set off on its journey to Mercury from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The 6.40 mete...
Looking for pieces of Venus on the surface of the Moon
Oct 08, 2020 (SPX)
Yet testing such theories is difficult without geological samples to examine. The solution, according to Yale astronomers Samuel Cabot and Gregory Laughlin, may...
Russia may send mission to Venus to study biomarkers in atmosphere in 2027
Oct 05, 2020 (Sputnik)
Russia's current plans include three scientific missions to Venus from 2029 to 2034. "Now [Russia] is studying an opportunity to organise in 2027 an urgent spec...
Venus Might Be Habitable Today, If Not for Jupiter
Oct 01, 2020 (SPX)
Jupiter has a mass that is two-and-a-half times that of all other planets in our solar system -- combined. Because it is comparatively gigantic, it has the abil...
Back to Venus: Upstart company wants to beat NASA in search for life
Sep 25, 2020 (AFP)
That's what Peter Beck, the CEO of Rocket Lab, is hoping as he sets his sights on launching a low-cost probe in 2023. Over the past decade his company has becom...
Observations give rare top-to-surface glimpse of Venus
Sep 22, 2020 (SPX)
On 11 July 2020, the Parker Solar Probe, which is travelling to the inner solar system to catch particles of the outer atmosphere of the Sun, completed the thir...
Spacecraft to fly past Venus weeks after signs of life detected in planet's atmosphere
Sep 18, 2020 (Sputnik)
The spacecraft in question - BepiColombo - is part of a joint international project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration ...
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