Earth & Venus
Venus is the Perfect Place to Count Meteors
Watching meteoroids enter the Earth’s atmosphere and streak across the sky as the visual spectacle known as meteors, it is…
5 months ago
The Atmosphere of an Exoplanet Reveals Secrets About Its Surface
Astronomers have now characterized the atmospheres of several exoplanets, with JWST and upcoming missions promising to turn that into the…
11 months ago
It Doesn't Take Much to Get a Runaway Greenhouse Effect
During the 1960s, the first robotic explorers began making flybys of Venus, including the Soviet Venera 1 and the Mariner…
11 months ago
Curiosity Sees Earth and Venus in the Night Skies on Mars
Normally the images from NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently sitting near “Bloodstone Hill” on Mars, are of alien vistas and rock…
4 years ago