Venus
Did Powerful Asteroid Impacts Make Venus So Different From Earth?
A new study connects impacts during Venus' early history to its smooth and "youthful" appearance today.
Venus has Clouds of Concentrated Sulfuric Acid, but Life Could Still Survive
A new study has found that some of the building blocks of organic molecules could survive in Venus clouds, suggesting…
The Clouds of Venus Could Support Life
A recent study published in Astrobiology examines the likelihood of the planet Venus being able to support life within the…
Did Life Need Plate Tectonics to Emerge?
It's widely accepted that Earth's plate tectonics are a key factor in life's emergence. Plate tectonics allows heat to move…
If You’re Going to Visit Venus, Why Not Include an Asteroid Flyby Too?
A recent study submitted to Acta Astronautica examines the prospect of designing a Venus mission flight plan that would involve…
We Now Have a Map of all 85,000 Volcanoes on Venus
A new map created with decades-old radar imagery from NASA's 1990’s Magellan mission shows the locations of a whopping 85,000…
The Best Way to Learn About Venus Could Be With a Fleet of Balloons
Interest in the exploration of Venus has kicked up a notch lately, especially after a contested recent discovery of phosphine,…
Potentially Active Volcanoes Have Been Found on Venus
Using archival radar images taken in the 1990s by NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, scientists have found evidence of recent active volcanism…
Venus is Like an Exoplanet that’s Right Next Door
We're lucky to have a neighbour like Venus, even though it's totally inhospitable, wildly different from the other rocky planets,…
Venus’ Outer Shell is Thinner and “Squishier” Than Previously Believed
While Earth and Venus are approximately the same size and both lose heat at about the same rate, the internal…