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The bold question-askers at What If explore whether life could survive on Venus given its gravity is 91% that of Earth's.
From floating planets to silent space, these 7 amazing space facts will spark curiosity in any student and deepen your love ...
Short for Venus Mass Spectrometer, VMS is one of five instruments aboard the DAVINCI descent probe. Launching in 2029, DAVINCI will be the first US probe mission to enter Venus’ atmosphere in ...
Dr. Clara Sousa-Silva is the co-author on the study about Phosphine on Venus. We ask her some questions from you about the discovery.
Venus’ mass and size are practically identical to Earth’s, but the two planets are vastly different from one another. Gao points to three open questions for researchers to answer: ...
Of the roughly 4,200 exoplanets discovered thus far, most are larger than Earth. But the recently identified planet L 98-59b is just half the mass of Venus.
Look to the east before sunrise on June 22 to catch the delicate form of the crescent moon shining with Venus alongside the Pleiades star cluster.
A team of astronomers have shed new light on planets around a nearby star, L 98-59, that resemble those in the inner Solar System. Amongst the findings are a planet with half the mass of Venus ...
This drawing shows the components of the Venus Mass Spectrometer (VMS) instrument to be installed in the atmospheric probe on the DAVINCI mission to Venus. The job of VMS is to sample gas during ...