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Why is Venus hotter than Mercury, when Mercury is closer to the Sun?
Vahe Peroomian, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Curious Kids is a series for children of…
Venus is losing water faster than previously thought – here’s what that could mean for the early planet’s habitability
An artist’s illustration of hydrogen disappearing from Venus. Aurore Simonnet/ Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics/ University of…
Venus: proof of active volcanoes – at last
A perspective view across Maat Mons on Venus, based on Magellan radar data. Nasa/JPL David Rothery, The Open…
Venus: the trouble with sending people there
NASA/JPL Andrew Coates, UCL Venus, often called Earth’s “evil twin” planet, formed closer to the Sun and has…
What’s it like to be on Venus or Pluto? We studied their sand dunes and found some clues
Sand blown by wind into ripples within Victoria Crater at Meridiani Planum on Mars, as photographed by NASA’s…
The Parker Solar Probe Just Took Its First Visible-Light Photos of Venus
Months after claiming the ultimate speed record for an artificial object and after dipping below our Sun’s atmosphere…