The EnVision mission to Venus will explore why Earth’s closest neighbor is so different. Credit: NASA / JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Damia Bouic…
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Recent research by the University of Cambridge has unveiled the mystery behind Venus’s cloud compositions, identifying a combination of rhomboclase and acid ferric sulfate as…
A recent study has turned the tables on our understanding of Venus by suggesting it once featured Earth-like plate tectonics. This assertion, derived from Venus’s…
Members of the VERITAS science team descend a slope to new rock formed from a recent flow of lava during their Iceland field campaign in…
Maat Mons is displayed in this computer-generated, three-dimensional perspective of the surface of Venus. The viewpoint is located 634 kilometers (393 miles) north of Maat…
Image depicts divergent evolutionary pathways of Earth and Venus after formation. Credit: O’Rourke, J.G., Wilson, C.F., Borrelli, M.E. et al. Study Narrows James Webb Space…
This computer-generated 3D model of Venus’ surface shows the summit of Maat Mons, the volcano that is exhibiting signs of activity. A new study found…
DAVINCI will send a meter-diameter probe to brave the high temperatures and pressures near Venus’ surface to explore the atmosphere from above the clouds to…
This illustration of the large Quetzalpetlatl Corona located in Venus’ southern hemisphere depicts active volcanism and a subduction zone, where the foreground crust plunges into…
The spectral data from SOFIA overlain atop this image of Venus from NASA’s Mariner 10 spacecraft is what the researchers observed in their study, showing…
An artist’s concept of active volcanos on Venus, depicting a subduction zone where the foreground crust plunges into the planet’s interior at the topographic trench.…
DAVINCI will send a meter-diameter probe to brave the high temperatures and pressures near Venus’ surface to explore the atmosphere from above the clouds to…
NASA’s DAVINCI mission will study the origin, evolution, and present state of Venus in unprecedented detail from near the top of the clouds to the…
A newly processed image of Venus compiled using data from the Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech How much do you know about the…
A sequence of images from Solar Dynamic Observatory in 171 angstroms of the Venus transit, merged together to show the path of Venus across the…
Surface of Venus, observed by NASA’s Magellan (Magalhães) spacecraft, which mapped the entire surface of the planet using radar in the early 1990s. Evidence of…
This animation shows the path light will follow as it hits the primary James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mirror, and is reflected to the secondary,…
NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory…
New modeling suggests fast collisions could explain why Earth is habitable while Venus is not. Credit: Southwest Research Institute/Simone Marchi & Raluca Rufu New modeling…
Artist’s conception of the aerial biosphere in the cloud layers of Venus’ atmosphere. In this picture, hypothetical microbial life in the clouds of Venus resides…