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Venus Express goes gently into the night
Dec 18, 2014 (ESA)
ESA's Venus Express has ended its eight-year mission after far exceeding its planned life. The spacecraft exhausted its propellant during a series of thruster b...
Venus Express anomaly
Dec 08, 2014 (ESA)
On 28 November 2014, the flight control team at ESOC reported loss of contact with Venus Express. It is possible that the remaining fuel on board VEX was exhaus...
Heavy Metal Frost On Venus
Oct 21, 2014 (SPX)
Venus is hiding something beneath its brilliant shroud of clouds: a first order mystery about the planet that researchers may be a little closer to solving beca...
Rediscovering Venus to Find Faraway Earths
Oct 16, 2014 (SPX)
Astronomers Chih-Hao Li and David Phillips of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics want to rediscover Venus-that familiar, nearby planet stargazers c...
NASA Research Helps Unravel Mysteries Of The Venusian Atmosphere
Sep 12, 2014 (SPX)
Underscoring the vast differences between Earth and its neighbor Venus, new research shows a glimpse of giant holes in the electrically charged layer of the Ven...
Venus Express: up above the clouds so high
Jul 29, 2014 (ESA)
ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has climbed to a new orbit following its daring aerobraking experiment, and will now resume observations of this fascinating plan...
Venus Express Rises Again
Jul 14, 2014 (ESA)
After a month surfing in and out of the atmosphere of Venus down to just 130 km from the planet's surface, ESA's Venus Express is about to embark on a 15 day cl...
Colonizing The Venusian Cloudtops
Jul 09, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
US scientists and science-fiction writers alike have made a strong case for the possible colonization of Venus. While so many space enthusiasts are keeping thei...
Venus Express Aerobraking update
Jul 08, 2014 (ESA)
Venus Express completed the 38th aerobraking orbit on 25 June with pericentre passage expected to have occurred at 21:37:04z; the spacecraft was in braking mode...
Venus Express gets ready to take the plunge
May 20, 2014 (ESA)
After eight years in orbit, ESA's Venus Express has completed routine science observations and is preparing for a daring plunge into the planet's hostile atmosp...
Venus glory
Mar 13, 2014 (ESA)
A rainbow-like feature known as a 'glory' has been seen by ESA's Venus Express orbiter in the atmosphere of our nearest neighbour - the first time one has been ...
NASA Researcher Finds Planet-Sized Space Weather Explosions at Venus
Feb 25, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers recently discovered that a common space weather phenomenon on the outskirts of Earth's magnetic bubble, the magnetosphere, has much larger repercuss...
Venus mountains create wave trains
Jan 16, 2014 (ESA)
The planet Venus is blanketed by high-level clouds. At visible wavelengths, individual cloud features are difficult to see, but observations made by instruments...
Sounding Rocket to Peek at Atmosphere of Venus
Nov 27, 2013 (SPX)
A week after launching a new orbiter to investigate the upper atmosphere of Mars, NASA is sending a sounding rocket to probe the atmosphere of Venus. The Mars A...
Super-hurricane-force winds on Venus are getting stronger
Jun 19, 2013 (ESA)
As the closest planet to Earth, Venus is a relatively easy object to observe. However, many mysteries remain, not least the super-rotation of Venus' atmosphere,...
Winds on Venus have accelerated by a third: scientists
Jun 18, 2013 (AFP)
Already travelling at super-hurricane speeds, winds on Venus have accelerated by an astonishing one-third over the past six years, the European Space Agency (ES...
Surprises in the South polar vortex in Venus' atmosphere
Mar 27, 2013 (SPX)
The astronomers in the UPV/EHU's Planetary Science Group have published, on-line in the prestigious journal Nature Geoscience, a study of the atmospheric vortex...
Cassini Spies Bright Venus From Saturn Orbit
Mar 07, 2013 (JPL)
A distant world gleaming in sunlight, Earth's twin planet, Venus, shines like a bright beacon in images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Satur...
Explosions on Venus engulf entire planet
Feb 20, 2013 (UPI)
A common space weather phenomenon on the outskirts of Earth's magnetic bubble has larger -- much larger -- repercussions for Venus, NASA scientists say. Giant e...
The tail of Venus and the weak solar wind
Feb 01, 2013 (ESA)
Measurements obtained with ESA's Venus Express spacecraft have shed new light on the interaction between the solar wind and the second planet from the Sun. Duri...
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