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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

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NASA Set a Launch Date of 31 October 1973 to Send Three Astronauts Past Venus. The Mission Would Have Lasted 396 Days.

Most people associate Apollo exclusively with the Moon, which makes sense, given that Apollo only ever went there. But after the lunar landing, NASA...

Harrison KassAugust 6, 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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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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Inside Mars’s Jezero Crater, once a lake and river delta, NASA’s Perseverance rover found complex carbon molecules built from the same four elements as all life on Earth — yet no one can yet say whether biology or ordinary chemistry made them.

NASA's Perseverance rover has found complex, ring-shaped carbon molecules sealed inside rocks in Mars's Jezero Crater, a basin that billions of years ago held...

Harrison KassJuly 27, 2026

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Saturn’s moon Titan has rain, rivers, seas, dunes, and seasons just like Earth, but at 290 degrees below zero the rain is liquid methane, the rivers carve ice, and the mountains are water frozen harder than granite — and in 2028 NASA sends a drone to see if it hides life.

Saturn's moon Titan looks uncannily like Earth: clouds, rain, rivers, lakes, seas, coastlines, dunes, and seasons. Then you learn the rain is liquid methane,...

Harrison KassJuly 27, 2026

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NASA’s Saturn V produced 7.6 million pounds of thrust, stood 363 feet tall, and sent 24 astronauts to the Moon without losing one — then in 1973 it was retired, its tooling scrapped, and nothing as powerful left Earth for almost 50 years.

From three miles away, the first thing to reach the press site was light. Then the sound arrived as force, shaking tripods and cracking...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 25, 2026

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NASA’s first space station weighed 77 tons and its launch nearly destroyed it, but engineers saved the thing with an improvised parasol, and when it finally fell out of orbit in 1979 a small Australian town fined the agency $400 for littering.

America's first space station was built out of leftover Apollo hardware — a modified Saturn V third stage, 77 tons and 118 feet long,...

Harrison KassJuly 24, 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.

Aerospace & Defense

NASA Set a Launch Date of 31 October 1973 to Send Three Astronauts Past Venus. The Mission Would Have Lasted 396 Days.

Space and Technology

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

Space and Technology

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

Space and Technology

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

Space and Technology

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.

Space and Technology

Inside Mars’s Jezero Crater, once a lake and river delta, NASA’s Perseverance rover found complex carbon molecules built from the same four elements as all life on Earth — yet no one can yet say whether biology or ordinary chemistry made them.

Space and Technology

Saturn’s moon Titan has rain, rivers, seas, dunes, and seasons just like Earth, but at 290 degrees below zero the rain is liquid methane, the rivers carve ice, and the mountains are water frozen harder than granite — and in 2028 NASA sends a drone to see if it hides life.

Space and Technology

NASA’s Saturn V produced 7.6 million pounds of thrust, stood 363 feet tall, and sent 24 astronauts to the Moon without losing one — then in 1973 it was retired, its tooling scrapped, and nothing as powerful left Earth for almost 50 years.

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NASA’s first space station weighed 77 tons and its launch nearly destroyed it, but engineers saved the thing with an improvised parasol, and when it finally fell out of orbit in 1979 a small Australian town fined the agency $400 for littering.

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