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NASA climate model: Venus was once habitable
Aug 11, 2016 (UPI)
Venus was likely once habitable, according to the projections of a new NASA climate model. Scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies developed a ...
What Lies Beneath - Venus' Surface Revealed Through the Clouds
Jul 19, 2016 (ESA)
Venus is famously hot, due to an extreme greenhouse effect which heats its surface to temperatures as high as 450 degrees Celsius. The climate at the surface is...
Scientist explains sulfur behavior in Venus atmosphere
Apr 28, 2016 (SPX)
The beautiful dark stripes on ultraviolet images of Venus's disc are in no way connected with the crystalline sulfur particles in its atmosphere - the ultraviol...
Swansong experiment sheds light on Venus's polar atmosphere
Apr 20, 2016 (ESA)
Some of the final results sent back by ESA's Venus Express before it plummeted down through the planet's atmosphere have revealed it to be rippling with atmosph...
Japan's space agency says probe now orbiting Venus
Dec 10, 2015 (Xinhua)
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Wednesday confirmed that its Akatsuki probe had successfully entered its intended orbit around Venus. On Monday...
Japanese space probe goes into orbit around Venus
Dec 09, 2015 (AFP)
Japan's space agency said Wednesday its "Akatsuki" probe had successfully entered into orbit around Venus after an initial attempt at reaching the second planet...
A polar vortex of Venusian color
Nov 11, 2015 (ESA)
On 9 November 2005, 10 years ago today, ESA's Venus Express spacecraft left Earth and began its 153-day journey to Venus. The craft then spent eight years study...
Venus, Trojan asteroids shortlisted for next NASA mission
Oct 01, 2015 (UPI)
NASA's shortlist for the agency's next scientific mission includes five options, but only two destinations -- Venus or asteroids. NASA says it will ultimately c...
Scientists study atmosphere of Venus through transit images
Jul 10, 2015 (SPX)
Two of NASA's heliophysics missions can now claim planetary science on their list of scientific findings. A group of scientists used the Venus transit - a very ...
Hot lava flows discovered on Venus
Jun 22, 2015 (ESA)
ESA's Venus Express has found the best evidence yet for active volcanism on Earth's neighbour planet. Seeing the planet's surface is extremely difficult due to ...
Study suggests active volcanism on Venus
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
An international team of scientists has found some of the best evidence yet that Venus, Earth's nearest neighbor, is volcanically active. In combing through dat...
After Mars, Indian Space Agency Aims at Venus
May 25, 2015 (Sputnik)
Following India's successful missions to the Moon and Mars, the next inter-planetary expedition launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) could ...
US Military Contractor Develops Aircraft for Flights to Hover Over Venus
May 18, 2015 (Sputnik)
The New Frontiers program was launched by NASA with the aim of exploring every planet in our solar system. Next on the list? Sulphurous Venus. To do that, contr...
Can sound help us detect 'earthquakes' on Venus
Apr 24, 2015 (SPX)
Detecting an "earthquake" on Venus would seem to be an impossible task. The planet's surface is a hostile zone of crushing pressure and scorching temperatures--...
Unexplained warm layer discovered in Venus' atmosphere
Mar 26, 2015 (SPX)
A group of Russian, European and American scientists have found a warm layer in Venus' atmosphere, the nature of which is still unknown. The researchers made th...
Venus, if you will, as seen in radar with the GBT
Mar 11, 2015 (SPX)
From earthbound optical telescopes, the surface of Venus is shrouded beneath thick clouds made mostly of carbon dioxide. To penetrate this veil, probes like NAS...
Huge Y in Venus atmosphere due to a wave distorted by wind
Mar 03, 2015 (SPX)
Venus is covered by a dense layer of clouds which does not display any noteworthy characteristic. However, when looked in the ultraviolet wavelength, it present...
Venus once featured oceans of carbon dioxide
Jan 01, 2015 (UPI)
Today, the surface of Venus is notoriously hellish -- hot, dry and suffocated by a thick lower atmosphere of toxic gases. But Venus was once covered in oceans. ...
NASA, Hot Air and Venus
Dec 22, 2014 (SPX)
Draft NASA plans for a human mission to Venus have spread virally though the mainstream media, and caused journalists in distant lands to contact this analyst f...
NASA theorizes a manned mission to Venus
Dec 19, 2014 (UPI)
The science world has been mostly fixated on Mars and comets, but some scientists at NASA are starting to talk about Venus -- suggesting a manned mission to our...
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