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Photographer snaps extremely rare 'green flash' coming from Venus
By Harry Baker published
A brief flash of green light was recently spotted coming from Venus in the night sky. The colorful shimmer has only been seen a handful of times before.
No alien life needed: Dark streaks in Venus' atmosphere can be explained by iron minerals
By Keith Cooper published
The dark streaks in Venus' atmosphere — a potential sign of life, according to some researchers — can be explained by Iron-bearing sulfate minerals, a new study reports.
Wispy ice clouds may form above Venus' hellish surface
By Robert Lea published
The surface of Venus is a hellscape with temperatures hot enough to melt lead, but some regions of its atmosphere high over the surface remain cool enough to harbor ice and birth ghostly clouds
Venus' atmosphere: Composition, clouds and weather
By Rebecca Sohn last updated
Reference The atmosphere of Venus is thick with clouds of carbon dioxide and has led to an extreme version of the same greenhouse effect currently causing climate change on Earth.
Alien life could thrive in Venus' acidic clouds, new study hints
By Leonard David published
A new study has found that amino acids — the building blocks of proteins — remain stable in concentrated sulfuric acid, the stuff that Venus' clouds are made of.
1st private mission to Venus will search for alien life in clouds of sulfuric acid
By Leonard David published
The first-ever private mission Venus is slated to launch in 2025. and aims to search for signs of life in its clouds by detecting organic chemistry.
Between Venus' atmospheric currents, a layer of reactive oxygen
By Conor Feehly published
Scientists found atomic oxygen buried between two dominant currents in the hellish planet's atmosphere.
See bright Venus and the crescent moon light up the early morning sky on Nov. 9
By Joe Rao published
The two brightest objects in the night sky — dazzling Venus and a lovely waning crescent moon — will be the chief celestial attraction in the predawn sky on Thursday, Nov. 9.
If Venus had Earth-like plate tectonics in its distant past, did it have life too?
By Robert Lea published
New research suggests the solar system's hottest planet, Venus, could have had Earth-like plate tectonics billions of years ago, opening up the possibility that this hellish once hosted life.
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