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“Humanity Is Blind To Danger”: Asteroids Concealed Near Venus Could Strike Earth Every 12,000 Years With Zero Time To React  Energy Reporters Nearly invisible asteroids around Venus could threaten Earth — but don’t worry, not for a while  Space “Venus Hides Asteroid Army Aimed At Earth”: 20 Coorbital Space Rocks Threaten Planet While Scientists Fear 460 Foot City Killers Orbit Invisibly Forever  Rude …

Reanalyzing old data with our modern understanding seems to be in vogue lately. However, the implications of that reanalysis for some topics are more impactful than others. One of the most hotly debated topics of late in the astrobiological community has been whether or not life can exist on Venus – specifically in its cloud layers, some of which have …

A hidden population of asteroids sharing Venus’ orbit could threaten Earth in a few thousand years, and we might not even see them coming without better telescopes. These so-called Venus co-orbital asteroids are currently undetected because of their alignment in the sky but could one day drift into Earth’s path, at least according to simulations combining analytical models and long-term …

The surface of Venus is scoured with strange, quasi-circular features called coronae. Unlike anything seen on Earth today, they can stretch hundreds of miles in diameter, even going past the thousand mark. Or they can be as little as a few dozen miles across. In images taken from orbit, they look like chaotic scribbles etched into the rock, surrounding a …

We could be overlooking an entire population of asteroids that pose a threat to Earth on the very simple basis that they’re extremely hard to see. In the space shared by the orbit of Venus, hundreds of undiscovered asteroids could be orbiting the Sun, hidden from our view simply because of their position. Because they’re closer to the center of …

3D Perspective View of Latona Corona and Dali Chasma on Venus. Source: Getty Images The surface of Venus is scoured with strange, quasi-circular features called coronae. Unlike anything seen on Earth today, they can stretch hundreds of miles in diameter, even going past the thousand mark. Or they can be as little as a few dozen miles across. In images …

To trap its prey, the Venus flytrap sends rapid electrical impulses, which are generated in response to touch or stress. But the molecular identity of the touch sensor has remained unclear. Japanese scientists have identified the molecular mechanism that triggers that response and have published their work in a new paper in the journal Nature Communications. As previously reported, the …

The mystery behind Venus’ giant, crown-shaped geological features, known as coronae, may finally have an explanation: A “glass ceiling” in Venus’ mantle is trapping heat and driving slow, shifting currents that might lead to the formation of the crown-like surface features, scientists propose in a new study. “On Venus, there is a pattern that is telling us something,” Madeleine Kerr, …

Credit: ExtremeTech. Venus and Earth are sometimes called twins because they’re pretty much about the same size. They also formed in the same inner part of the solar system, out of the same materials. Venus is in fact our closest neighbor to Earth. So, you would think that they would have turned out very, very similar. Nope. Earth looks like …

Venus is officially a lonely planet. After losing contact with the Akatsuki spacecraft last year, Japan’s space agency (JAXA) has officially ended operations of the lone mission left in our neighboring planet’s orbit. Earlier this week, JAXA determined that the recovery of its Venus probe was unlikely, prompting it to formally end the 15-year-old mission. Akatsuki, which translates to “dawn” in …