This day in history we feature Venus Express. The European Space Agency launched the first Venus exploration mission on this day in 2005. Trivia – Venus Express The Venus Express (VEX) mission is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, it arrived at Venus in April 2006 and began continuously sending back science data from […]
Scientists believe Venus could be harbouring alien lifeforms. The planet, which sits a casual 47 million kilometres from us in our solar system, has ammonia in its upper atmosphere. Researchers have reportedly been fixated on why Venus’ atmosphere contains the combination of hydrogen and nitrogen ever since it was discovered back in the 1970s. Now […]
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates Space Agency announced the commencement of a new Emirati interplanetary mission, designed to further accelerate the young nation’s space engineering, scientific research, and exploration capabilities and drive innovation and opportunity in the country’s private sector. “We have set our eyes to the stars because our journey to development and progress […]
The atmosphere of Venus contains a gas that on Earth can be attributed to living organisms, scientists said Monday, a discovery the head of NASA called “the most significant development yet” in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. Conditions on our planetary neighbour are often described as hellish with daytime temperatures hot enough to melt lead […]
