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Venus: Planetary Portrait of Inner Beauty
June 1, 2012 — A Venus transit across the face of the sun is a relatively rare event -- occurring in pairs with more than a century separating each pair. There have been all of 53 transits of Venus across the sun ... > full story -
Why Earth Is Not an Ice Ball: Possible Explanation for Faint Young Sun Paradox
May 30, 2012 — More than 2 billion years ago, a much fainter sun should have left the Earth as an orbiting ice ball. Why we avoided the deep freeze is a question that has puzzled scientists, but one astronomer ... > full story -
The Transit of Venus: June 5-6, 2012
May 28, 2012 — Many astronomers and members of the public in Britain will be getting up early on the morning of June 6, so they can see (using precautions to avoid permanent eye damage) the final Transit of Venus ... > full story -
Hubble to Use Moon as Mirror to See Venus Transit
May 4, 2012 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will study Venus's atmosphere during an upcoming opportunity where Venus is passing in front of the Sun. Hubble cannot look at the Sun directly, so astronomers are ... > full story -
Venus to Appear in Once-in-a-Lifetime Event
May 1, 2012 — On 5 and 6 June this year, millions of people around the world will be able to see Venus pass across the face of the Sun in what will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It will take Venus about six ... > full story -
Large Solar Flares Generate Geomagnetic Storm
March 8, 2012 — A pair of unusually large solar flares early March 7, 2012 generated a Coronal Mass Ejection that was expected to reach Earth around mid-day March 8. It will likely cause at least a strong ... > full story -
Space Weather: Explosions on Venus
March 5, 2012 — A recent study has found clear evidence on Venus for a type of space weather outburst quite common at Earth, called a hot flow ... > full story -
Venus Has an Ozone Layer Too, Space Probe Discovers
October 6, 2011 — The European Space Agency’s Venus Express spacecraft has discovered an ozone layer high in the atmosphere of Venus. Comparing its properties with those of the equivalent layers on Earth and ... > full story -
Venus Weather Not Boring After All, Scientists Discover
September 27, 2011 — At first glance, a weather forecaster for Venus would have either a really easy or a really boring job, depending on your point of view. The climate on Venus is widely known to be unpleasant -- at ... > full story -
Venus Holds Warning for Earth
November 30, 2010 — A mysterious high-altitude layer of sulphur dioxide discovered by ESA's Venus Express has been explained. As well as telling us more about Venus, it could be a warning against injecting our ... > full story
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