Venus News -- ScienceDaily
Apr 22, 2024 · Latest Headlines. updated 6:35pm EST. To Find Life in the Universe, Look to Deadly Venus. Apr. 22, 2024 — Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava …
Venus’ atmosphere reveals potential signs of life - CNN
Jul 29, 2024 · Researchers’ detection of two gases, phosphine and ammonia, in the clouds of Venus raises speculation about possible life forms in the planet’s atmosphere.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe flies by Venus before historic sun …
Nov 6, 2024 · Here’s how it works. NASA's Parker Solar Probe should have completed its seventh swing past Venus on Nov. 6 — the spacecraft's final maneuver around the amber planet — in a flyby that nudged ...
NASA Selects 2 Missions to Study ‘Lost Habitable’ World of Venus
Jun 2, 2021 · NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor. Part of NASA’s Discovery Program, the missions aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world when it has so many other characteristics similar to ours – and may have been the first habitable world in the solar system, complete with an ocean and ...
Parker Solar Probe Captures its First Images of Venus' Surface in ...
Feb 9, 2022 · Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually shrouded from sight. But in two recent flybys of the planet, Parker used its Wide-Field Imager, or WISPR, to image the entire nightside in wavelengths of the visible spectrum – the type of light that the human eye can see – and extending into the near-infrared.
Venus may be able to support life, new atmospheric evidence …
Aug 2, 2024 · New preliminary evidence for phosphine and ammonia in Venus's atmosphere deepens the mystery behind what is producing these gases. The puzzling origin of phosphine and now ammonia means that the...
Final Venus Flyby for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Queues Closest …
Nov 4, 2024 · The flyby will adjust Parker’s trajectory into its final orbital configuration, bringing the spacecraft to within an unprecedented 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024. It will be the closest any human made object has been to the Sun. Parker’s Venus flybys have become boons for new Venus science thanks to a chance ...
NASA will be heading back to Venus for the first time in ... - Science News
Jun 2, 2021 · NASA will be heading back to Venus for the first time in decades. Two missions will explore the history of the planet's water and habitability. One of NASA’s next missions to Venus will be an...
VERITAS - NASA Science
VERITAS, and another mission called DAVINCI, will be the first NASA spacecraft to explore Venus since the 1990s. Veritas will discover the secrets of a lost habitable world, gathering data to reveal how the paths of Venus and Earth diverged.
Ongoing Venus Volcanic Activity Discovered With NASA’s …
May 27, 2024 · Direct geological evidence of recent volcanic activity on Venus has been observed for a second time. Scientists in Italy analyzed archival data from NASA’s Magellan mission to reveal surface changes indicating the formation of new rock from lava flows linked to volcanoes that erupted while the spacecraft orbited the planet.