Venus

Mysterious flashes on Venus may be meteors, not lightning

A new study suggests that the mysterious lights within the gas giant’s swirling clouds are in fact meteors burning up in the planet's atmosphere.

Composite image of Venus from NASA's Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter.
 This artist's impression shows two Earth-sized worlds passing in front of their parent red dwarf star, which is much smaller and cooler than our Sun. The star and its orbiting planets TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c reside 40 light-years away.

Get your telescopes ready: Five planets to align on Monday

Cloud structure of the Venusian atmosphere, made visible through ultraviolet imaging

Scientists identify active volcanism on Venus for the first time ever

The planet Venus

Christmas Eve: Spot Mercury, Venus and the Moon without binoculars


Scientists propose new class for asteroids within Venus's orbit - study

The discovery and study of 'Ayló'chaxnim have surpassed the expectations of scientists, and it could add an even rarer type of asteroid class. It also might hit the Earth within 50 million years.

 Venus (illustrative).

Five planets align perfectly, visible until end of June

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible every morning until the end of June in an alignment not seen since 1864.

 The solar system.

Israel, UAE open call for research into space

This project is the first cooperation between the two countries in the field of space.

 Israel’s Minister of Science, Technology and Space Orit Farkash and the UAE’s Minister of State for Advanced Technology Sarah Al Amiri signed the historic agreement together at Expo 2020’s World Space Week

Is there life on Venus? This privately-funded mission seeks to find out

INTERGALACTIC AFFAIRS: New mission will investigate the atmosphere of Earth’s seemingly inhospitable neighbor to see if bacteria live in its clouds, and solve other mysteries in the process.

 AN ARTIST’S conception of the aerial biosphere in the cloud layers of Venus’s atmosphere. In this picture, hypothetical microbial life in the clouds of Venus resides inside protective cloud particles and is carried by winds around the planet.

Life on Venus? Privately-funded mission set to probe Earth's neighbor for life

The Venus Life Finder Missions is a private effort by MIT researchers led by Jewish-American scientist Sara Seager and backed by Breakthrough Initiatives.

 Venus (illustrative).

Israel and France launch nanosatellite to monitor vegetation, predict weather

Meet the VENµS probe, which conducts routine flybys of the Earth, and attains high resolution, multispectral images of specific sites around the world.

 The VENµS satellite

UAE to launch mission to explore Venus, land on asteroid

Set to launch in 2028, the mission will see the UAE explore the planet Venus as well as seven asteroids before being the first Arab nation to land on an asteroid.

Asteroid illustrative

Life on Venus? Potential sign of alien life detected In Planet’s Clouds

"I was very surprised - stunned, in fact," said astronomer Jane Greaves of Cardiff University in Wales, lead author of the research published in the journal Nature Astronomy.

The planet Venus