DAVINCI will send a meter-diameter probe to brave the high temperatures and pressures near Venus’ surface to explore the atmosphere from above the clouds to near the surface of a terrain that may have ...

An artist’s impression of Gilese 12 b in orbit around its red dwarf host star. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (Caltech-IPAC) A newly discovered exoplanet, with its surface temperature estimated to be ...

In 1975, the Soviet Venera 9 lander became the first probe to send back images from the surface of Venus, surviving only 53 minutes in the extreme conditions of the planet. According to records from ...

Researchers have presented new evidence for the presence of two gases that are closely related to life on Earth in the atmosphere of Venus. As The Guardian reports, scientists at a national astronomy ...

Can you believe it? In that sulfuric acid cloud-covered place on Venus, phosphine has actually been detected! On Earth, this ...

An artist’s impression of the proposed VERVE mission to Venus the answer whether tiny bacterial lifeforms really do exist in the planet’s clouds. © Danielle ...

Astronomers have made the rare and tantalising discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet 40 light-years away that may be just a little warmer than our own world. The potentially-habitable planet, named ...

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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 ...

Astronomers have made the rare and tantalising discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet 40 light-years away that may be just a little warmer than our own world. The potentially-habitable planet, named ...