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In June 1985 Russia Flew 2 Balloons Through the Sulfuric Acid Clouds of Venus. They Rode 150-Mile-an-Hour Winds for 46 Hours and 11,600 Kilometers, and No Balloon Has Flown on Another Planet Since.

In June 1985 the Soviet Union released 2 balloons into the clouds of Venus. Each was 3.4 meters across, hung a 7-kilogram gondola from...

Harry J. Kazianis2 days ago

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A Russian spacecraft built in 1972 to land on Venus finally made its landing 53 years later, on 10 May 2025 — except it came down on Earth, carried through a fiery reentry intact by the same titanium shell its engineers had built to survive the hottest planet in the solar system.

At around one in the morning on April 3, 1972, four red-hot titanium spheres fell out of the sky onto farmland near Ashburton on...

Harry J. Kazianis3 days ago

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Saturn’s Rings May Be Younger Than the Dinosaurs, Raining an Olympic Pool of Ice into Saturn Every 30 Minutes, and They Are Already Disappearing

The probes rewrote Saturn's rings: possibly younger than the dinosaurs, raining an Olympic pool of ice into the planet every half hour, ten meters...

Harry J. KazianisAugust 20, 2026

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NASA Deliberately Crashed Magellan Into Venus in 1994 — the First Time an Operating Planetary Spacecraft Was Ever Intentionally Destroyed.

After four years mapping Venus, NASA flew Magellan into the planet it had charted. Controllers lost radio contact on 12 October 1994 on orbit...

Harrison KassAugust 7, 2026

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The European Space Agency Crashed the Venus Express Probe Into Venus to Destroy It In Purpose. It ‘Had Exceeded Its Design Life Many Times Over.

Rather than build a new spacecraft, ESA reused the Mars Express bus and spare scientific instruments left over from Mars Express and Rosetta. Venus...

Harrison KassAugust 7, 2026

This artistic impression depicts our Solar System neighbour Venus, where scientists have confirmed the detection of phosphine molecules. The molecules were detected in the Venusian high clouds in data from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, in which ESO is a partner. Astronomers have speculated for decades that life could exist in Venus’s high clouds. The detection of phosphine could point to such extra-terrestrial “aerial” life.

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Standing on Venus Would Be Like Being 3,000 Feet Underwater at 867°F. Soviet Landers Survived Between 32 and 127 Minutes.

Surface pressure on Venus runs about ninety times Earth's, equivalent to diving three thousand feet into the ocean, at an average surface temperature of...

Harrison KassAugust 6, 2026

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching in 2026, is expected to find around 100,000 planets beyond our solar system in a single mission — after nearly 30 years of searching, astronomers have confirmed roughly 6,000.

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Ordinary Matter Is Just 5 Percent of the Universe. On 30 August NASA Launches a 300-Megapixel Telescope Built to Map the Other 95.

Everything astronomers can see directly — stars, planets, gas, dust, people — accounts for about five percent of the universe. Roughly 27 percent is...

Harrison KassAugust 4, 2026

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On 5 August 2026 a Discarded SpaceX Upper Stage Hits the Moon at 5,400 MPH. It Weighs 8,800 Pounds and Will Land With the Force of Three Tons of TNT.

The Falcon 9 upper stage that launched Firefly's Blue Ghost and ispace's Resilience in January 2025 had no propellant left for a disposal burn....

Harrison KassAugust 4, 2026

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Kosmos 482 Was Built to Survive 900°F and 90 Earth Atmospheres on Venus. It Never Left Earth Orbit — and 53 Years Later It Was Still Too Tough to Burn Up

Kosmos 482 lifted off from Baikonur on 31 March 1972, bound for Venus as the sister craft to Venera 8. It reached parking orbit,...

Harrison KassAugust 4, 2026

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In 1984 the Soviet Union sent Vega 2 to Venus, where the surface is 900 degrees Fahrenheit under 90 times Earth’s pressure, hot enough to melt lead — then released a balloon that drifted for two days high in its clouds.

In December 1984 the Soviet Union launched Vega 2 on an unusual double mission: fly past Halley's Comet, then plunge into Venus, a world...

Harrison KassJuly 30, 2026

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19FortyFive

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In June 1985 Russia Flew 2 Balloons Through the Sulfuric Acid Clouds of Venus. They Rode 150-Mile-an-Hour Winds for 46 Hours and 11,600 Kilometers, and No Balloon Has Flown on Another Planet Since.

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A Russian spacecraft built in 1972 to land on Venus finally made its landing 53 years later, on 10 May 2025 — except it came down on Earth, carried through a fiery reentry intact by the same titanium shell its engineers had built to survive the hottest planet in the solar system.

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Saturn’s Rings May Be Younger Than the Dinosaurs, Raining an Olympic Pool of Ice into Saturn Every 30 Minutes, and They Are Already Disappearing

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NASA Deliberately Crashed Magellan Into Venus in 1994 — the First Time an Operating Planetary Spacecraft Was Ever Intentionally Destroyed.

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The European Space Agency Crashed the Venus Express Probe Into Venus to Destroy It In Purpose. It ‘Had Exceeded Its Design Life Many Times Over.

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Standing on Venus Would Be Like Being 3,000 Feet Underwater at 867°F. Soviet Landers Survived Between 32 and 127 Minutes.

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Ordinary Matter Is Just 5 Percent of the Universe. On 30 August NASA Launches a 300-Megapixel Telescope Built to Map the Other 95.

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On 5 August 2026 a Discarded SpaceX Upper Stage Hits the Moon at 5,400 MPH. It Weighs 8,800 Pounds and Will Land With the Force of Three Tons of TNT.

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Kosmos 482 Was Built to Survive 900°F and 90 Earth Atmospheres on Venus. It Never Left Earth Orbit — and 53 Years Later It Was Still Too Tough to Burn Up

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In 1984 the Soviet Union sent Vega 2 to Venus, where the surface is 900 degrees Fahrenheit under 90 times Earth’s pressure, hot enough to melt lead — then released a balloon that drifted for two days high in its clouds.

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