The Tethered Observatory for Balloon-based Imaging and Atmospheric Sampling is an idea awarded a NIAC grant by NASA earlier this year.

Doing the same for Venus, stripping the remaining water from the atmosphere would create a global layer just 1.2 inches (3 centimeters) deep. "Venus has 100,000 times less water than the Earth ...

but we wanted to take a different approach based on observations of Venus' current atmospheric chemistry," said Constantinou.

Credit: CBS via Getty Images Millions of space nerds reacted with joy Monday to a study showing the atmosphere of Venus contains phosphine, a chemical byproduct of biological life. But none would ...

During that period, the so-called inner planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars—all developed the same kind of air, a so-called primary atmosphere. It consisted mostly of hydrogen and helium ...

On Monday, you covered a train wreck and on Tuesday, Mariner 10’s ultraviolet revelations of a dynamic Venus atmosphere. This was the heyday of Ted Baxter, the booming airhead TV anchor played ...

The DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions aim to respectively characterize Venus’ atmosphere and map its surface in unprecedented detail. This should provide us information about possible tectonic ...