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Venus, Earth's hostile twin, is growing more unpredictable for upcoming space missions. Extreme heat, crushing pressure, and ...

Astronomers once thought Venus might be Earth’s twin, but the reality is far more brutal. With a surface hot enough to melt lead, crushing atmospheric pressure, and clouds of sulfuric acid, Venus is a ...

Despite decades spent exploring our solar system, there's still a lot that humanity hasn't accomplished, and still a lot that we haven't properly explored. Chief among those things that still need ...

Radar images of the surface of Venus appear to show fresh lava flows, suggesting active volcanoes on the planet. Scientists from Italy's International Research School of Planetary Sciences wrote in an ...

Conditions on Venus's surface have largely remained a mystery for decades. Carl Sagan famously pointed out that people were ...

Five global space agencies are preparing landmark missions to explore Venus—Earth's fiery twin—unlocking secrets about its ...

A team of scientists at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland recently completed a technology demonstration that could enable new scientific missions to the surface of Venus. The team demonstrated ...

A trio of papers provide new insight into the composition and evolution of the surface of Venus, hidden beneath its caustic, high temperature atmosphere. Utilizing imaging from orbit using multiple ...

The surface of Venus is a hellscape with temperatures hot enough to melt lead, but some regions of its atmosphere high over the surface remain cool enough to harbor ice and birth ghostly clouds. When ...