HANNAH WAKEFORD is the Giacconi Fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. GJ1214b GJ 1214b is a "super-Earth" orbiting a small star located 40 light-years from our solar ...

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NASA's VERITAS mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than 2031 on a mission to study Venus and its past. VERITAS will tell us about the mechanisms that drove Venus from being habitable to hellish.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) is launching the Envision spacecraft in 2031 or later to study Venus and its past. Envision will tell us the history Venus experienced that drove it from being ...