20 November 2019
Insects on Mars, fungi on Venus. Evidence is presented for life on our neighbouring planets
... soil exposing some of the subsurface mushroom-looking specimens. These are what are featured in the photos's Venera 13 took before succumbing to its quick demise. Joseph, who is an advocate of directed panspermia – a hypothesis which suggests that...
23 September 2019
Venus may once have had oceans says a new study
... been a whole plethora of unmanned missions to this hostile world, including NASA’s Pioneer mission and Russia’s three Venera spacecraft. Spring forward 40 years and a new study building on the data collected by these early missions has...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... to the Moon with Luna 25, 26, 27 and 28 was repeatedly delayed and these missions have still to fly, while Venera D, a long-duration Venus lander first designed in the 1980s, is not due to appear until the late 2020s...
06 January 2020
New evidence suggests that Venus has active volcanoes
... Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments. Meanwhile both India and Russia with their Shukrayaan-1 orbiter and Venera-D spacecraft, respectively, are also currently in development with launches planned in the next decade.
09 October 2020
BepiColombo could search for signs of life as it flybys Venus next week
... probe is not suited to search for PH3, others such as Rocket Lab’s intended Venus mission and future Venera missions planned by Russia, might get lucky instead. Although the detection of phosphine is not expected, the Planetary...
