On its latest flyby of Venus, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe once again swung by the second planet from the Sun for its yearly gravity boost. On this routine flyby, something unexpected happened: the probe ...

If there is one planet that scientists want to undress with their eyes, it’s Venus, and NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has seen through its hazy atmosphere to take the first visible light images of the ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is continuing to shed light on Venus despite its focus on the Sun. According to Futurism, the spacecraft detected a natural radio signal revealing that it skirted Venus' ...

Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the first detection with the Venus Express spacecraft of hydroxyl (OH) in the atmosphere of Venus. The OH “radical” is a very special and reactive molecule, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As the sun's activity waxes and wanes, so too does the ionosphere of Venus, a key layer in the ...

One of the striking features about Venus atmosphere is its temporal variability and dynamics, with a chaotic polar vortex, large-scale atmospheric waves, sheared features, and variable winds that ...

During the day, solar radiation excites atoms and molecules in the atmospheres of Earth and Venus to higher energy levels. As darkness falls, the atoms and molecules drop to lower energy states and ...

During a brief swing by Venus, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe detected a natural radio signal that revealed the spacecraft had flown through the planet’s upper atmosphere. This was the first direct ...