Tag: Venus

5 planets line up in rare planetary conjunction
5 planets line up in rare planetary conjunction

The conjunction was brightest on Friday morning but will remain visible until Monday from most parts of the world.

  • Saturday, 25 June 2022
NASA, ESA
ESA, NASA Spacecrafts To Make 2 Venus Flybys

Both spacecrafts have one more flyby this year -- BepiColombo in October and Solar Orbiter in November.

  • Monday, 09 August 2021
NASA plans airships, floating city for manned Venus mission

Washington: NASA plans to send solar-powered airships to explore Venus’ atmosphere and to eventually establish a permanent human colony in a floating cloud city above the Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour. Dale Arney and Chris Jones, from the Space Mission Analysis Branch of NASA’s Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate at Langley Research Center, in Virginia, have […]

  • Sunday, 27 June 2021
First plane to fly through Venus in the offing

A Virginia-based global aerospace company is planning to build a plane that will fly through Venus's atmosphere in 2021

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Venus
Astronomer Detect Possible Life On Venus

London: Source: Sou The astronomers were surprised when they found the presence of a chemical called “phosphine” in the atmosphere of Venus, named after the Roman goddess of beauty. Doing an analysis of the source of the chemical, the scientists ruled out non-biological sources, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy on […]

  • Monday, 12 April 2021
US-European Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Makes Its First Venus Flyby
US-European Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Makes Its First Venus Flyby

London: The joint US-European Solar Orbiter spacecraft has completed its first of many gravity assist flybys of Venus, to start bringing it closer to the Sun and tilting its orbit in order to observe our star from different perspectives. The spacecraft’s closest approach to Venus took place at 12.39 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on Sunday. […]

  • Wednesday, 07 April 2021
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