Venus has a lot to teach us, deadly as it is. The planet Venus is often referred to as "Earth's twin" since both planetary ...

Modern-day Venus is thoroughly hostile to life, shrouded in thick acidic clouds and sweltering at 900°F. However, the ...

NASA's "Return to Venus" initiative has hit a huge roadblock and the VERITAS mission has been delayed until at least the ...

The revelation that they were mostly made of rock like Earth, with water accounting for up to 5 per cent of their mass, raised hopes that they could hold alien life. But now, using NASA’s ...

Venus is a hellish, inhospitable place with scorching surface temperatures and atmospheric pressure 100 times greater than Earth. Its surface is covered in volcanoes, and scientists have long ...

Scientists have analyzed 30-year-old data from NASA's Magellan mission to Venus and detected the first-ever signs of volcanic activity on the planet, emanating from a giant crater called Maat Mons.

That is about to change, however, with NASA having selected two new missions ... levels and thus the tantalizing possibility of life existing on Venus. Little is known about Rocket Lab’s ...

Trappist-1 is a relatively dim little star, but TRAPPIST-1b orbits close enough that it still gets about four times as much ...

No matter what science fiction says, it’s hard to imagine humans will ever be able to stomp around a planet in another planetary system looking for life — the distances, time, and energy ...

NASA's decision to pull the funding for the modest VERITAS mission to Venus, which was both on track and on budget, in order to accommodate other missions facing cost overruns has left the team ...