Data for the study came from NASA’s Magellan mission, which orbited Venus in the 1990s. Though decades old, its radar ...

スーパーアースとスーパーヴィーナスはどちらも質量・半径が地球を上回る岩石惑星で、誕生直後には厚い大気と液体の水を保持していた点が共通しています。進化の過程で、海洋と大気が安定したものがスーパーアースとなり、恒星からの強い放射で温室効果が暴走したものは ...

A new study of Venus suggests that the deeply inhospitable world may be more like Earth than we thought.

Kosmos 482 was launched in March 1972 as part of the Soviet Venera program to explore Venus from the surface. A launch mishap ...

Learn about a new study that uses the data from Magellan to reveal insights into Venus’ ongoing tectonic activity and how it ...

A Venus explorer launched by the former Soviet Union over 50 years ago that failed to reach the planet is expected to reenter ...

The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred ...

It's still quite uncertain just where and when the craft will fall, although it is expected to reenter around 2:26 am ET on ...

The Virtual Telescope Project aims to observe the anticipated reentry of the former Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 spacecraft as ...

Launched over 50 years ago, this piece of the Kosmos 482 mission was designed to survive the punishing conditions on Venus.

Venus has a crust that is all one piece, with no evidence of subduction caused by plate tectonics like on Earth.

A probe launched from the Soviet Union more than five decades ago has plummeted back to Earth, splashing down in the Indian ...