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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 ...

Phosphine on Venus a step toward understanding biomarker molecules

Sep 16, 2020 (SPX)

"When we got the first hints of phosphine in Venus's spectrum, it was a shock!", says team leader Jane Greaves of Cardiff University in the UK, who first spotte...

Hints of life on Venus

Sep 15, 2020 (SPX)

Astronomers have speculated for decades that high clouds on Venus could offer a home for microbes - floating free of the scorching surface, but still needing to...

Astronomers may have found a signature of life on Venus

Sep 15, 2020 (SPX)

Now, in a surprising twist, scientists at MIT, Cardiff University, and elsewhere have observed what may be signs of life in the clouds of our other, even closer...

Possible marker of life spotted on Venus

Sep 15, 2020 (SPX)

Confirming their discovery required using 45 antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, a more sensitive telescope in which t...

Akatsuki reveals giant cloud disruption unnoticed for 35 years on Venus

Aug 07, 2020 (SPX)

Venus is often called our sister planet because of similarities in size, mass, density and volume. However, the Venusian environment and the atmosphere is entir...

The Venus 'ring of fire'

Jul 23, 2020 (SPX)

A few years ago, a team of ETH researchers led by Taras Gerya, Professor of Geophysics at the Department of Earth Sciences, used computer models to investigate ...

Scientists find 'ring of fire' on surface of Venus

Jul 21, 2020 (UPI)

Unlike Earth's Ring of Fire, which is fueled by plate tectonics, the ring of fire on Venus is caused by vertical hotspot volcanism, the same phenomenon that pro...

Scientists discover volcanoes on Venus are still active

Jul 21, 2020 (SPX)

"This is the first time we are able to point to specific structures and say 'Look, this is not an ancient volcano but one that is active today, dormant perhaps,...

Exploring the Deep Truths of Venus

Jul 09, 2020 (JPL)

How these "sister planets" evolved so differently has been a burning scientific question for decades, and a proposed mission called VERITAS seeks to provide ans...

NASA's Venus Rover Challenge winners announced

Jul 07, 2020 (JPL)

"The response from the community was incredible and better than I ever dreamed," said Jonathan Sauder, a senior mechatronics engineer at JPL. "There were so man...

Return to Venus on Indian Space Mission

Jul 02, 2020 (SPX)

Between 2006-2014 IRF's instrument ASPERA-4 (Analyzes of Space Plasma and EneRgetic Atoms) studied Venus on board the European spacecraft Venus Express. The sat...

Atmospheric tidal waves maintain Venus' super-rotation

Apr 24, 2020 (SPX)

An international research team led by Takeshi Horinouchi of Hokkaido University has revealed that this 'super-rotation' is maintained near the equator by atmosp...

MESSENGER data upends idea about Venus's atmosphere

Apr 21, 2020 (SPX)

For a team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, that statement couldn't be more true. What started as a dry...

NASA Goddard Team Selected to Design Concept for Probe of Mysterious Venus Atmosphere

Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)

DAVINCI+ is a mission concept designed by scientists and engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Among its primary objectives is...

NASA wants your help designing a Venus rover concept

Feb 24, 2020 (JPL)

Venus is an extreme world. With a surface temperature in excess of 840 degrees Fahrenheit and a surface pressure 90 times that of Earth, Venus can turn lead int...

Scientists find evidence that venus has active volcanoes

Jan 06, 2020 (SPX)

"If Venus is indeed active today, it would make a great place to visit to better understand the interiors of planets," says Dr. Justin Filiberto, the study's le...

The return to Venus and what it means for Earth

Dec 12, 2019 (JPL)

Now superheated by greenhouse gases, Venus' climate was once more similar to Earth's, with a shallow ocean's worth of water. It may even have subduction zones l...

Was Venus once warm and wet, new study of lava flow suggests not

Oct 08, 2019 (SPX)

Previous studies suggested that early Venus was once warm and wet based on the chemistry of its atmosphere and the presence of highlands. These highlands were t...

Venus may have been habitable

Sep 24, 2019 (SPX)

Forty years ago, NASA's Pioneer Venus mission found tantalising hints that Earth's 'twisted sister' planet may once have had a shallow ocean's worth of water. T...