Venus never had oceans, climate model shows
Too hot, no rain, but the search for Venusian oceans will continue.
New research has revealed that Venus may have been too hot to ever form oceans on its surface.In many ways, our n...
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What you may have missed…
Baby pterosaurs soaring, Venusian weather, crafty crows and more – here’s what went on in last we...
Baby pterosaurs fly the nestInfant pterosaurs may have taken to the air as soon as they cracked out of the egg, a...
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The surface of Venus is geologically active
New study of the ‘hellish’ planet reveals tectonic activity, disproves solid lithosphere theory.
Venus’ surface is not a single, solid “lithosphere”, as once thought, but a patchwork of tectonic plates with similar...
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Return to the Forgotten Planet
Could Venus have once supported life? Four planned missions should go a long way towards finding ...
With scientists increasingly excited about the possibility that Venus might once have had an ocean capable of support...
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NASA’s going back to Venus
Two new missions to our sister planet will launch within a decade.
NASA is on a mission (two missions, actually) to discover what turned Earth’s “sister planet”, Venus, into the hellis...
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Snapshot
Venus: First Peoples recognising the Morning and Evening Star
Australia’s First Peoples’ detailed understanding of the planets and their complex motions. Disco...
By Kirsten Banks and Duane Hamacher.Venus is the brightest planet and third brightest object in the sky after the...
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What our clouds might tell us about Venus
Aerobiology, microorganisms and prospects of life.
Researchers in the emerging field of aerobiology are using microorganisms swept up in the Earth’s atmosphere to probe...
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Was Earth once a bit more like Venus?
Researchers create magma to model our old atmosphere.
The degassing of early Earth’s magma ocean may have produced an atmosphere on Earth similar to that found on Venus to...
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Venus keeps teasing us about life
Phosphine gas has been detected in its atmosphere.
Scientists studying the atmosphere of Venus have found traces of a rare chemical that on Earth can only be produced b...
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Volcanoes are still active on Venus
New 3D model shows the planet is churning inside.
For decades, scientists thought the planet Venus was geologically dead. But it turns out it still has plenty of life:...
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Super-rotation and Venus’ atmosphere
Researchers suggest it’s due to tides, waves and turbulence.
Scientists tracking the thick clouds of Venus’ rapidly rotating atmosphere say they have gained new insights into the...
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New insights into habitability of Venus
Study finds lava flow didn’t contain water.
A lava flow on Venus once believed to have been formed under wet conditions early in the planet’s history was actuall...