Venus
Aerocapture is a Free Lunch in Space Exploration
This article was updated on 11/28/23 When spacecraft return to Earth, they don't need to shed all their velocity by…
Venus Might Have Had Plate Tectonics Just Like Earth
Even though Venus is very similar to Earth in many ways, it's a hell-world with a runaway greenhouse effect. It…
Floating Seismometers Could Help Peer Into The Core of Venus
Seismology has been ubiquitous on Earth for decades, and missions such as InSight have recently provided the same data for…
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 Needed Asteroid Impacts to Get its Volcanoes Going
Unlike Earth, Venus lacks the plate tectonics that give rise to volcanoes. But the surface of Venus looks far younger…
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…
A Practical Use for Space Power: Beaming Energy to Probes on Venus
A few weeks ago, a team of scientists from Caltech announced that they had successfully transmitted energy from an orbiting…
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…
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…