Meteors, not lightning, the likely culprit behind Venus’s bright flashes, scientists suggest

New evidence challenges the conventional wisdom about Venus’s atmospheric phenomena. One theory suggests that bright flashes in Venus’s atmosphere could be caused by meteors. Another team of researchers discovered whistler waves in Venus’s atmosphere, but they were moving downward toward the planet rather than away from it. This has led to a hypothesis that disturbances in Venus’s magnetic fields, rather than lightning, could be the source of these waves.