"We would have loved to find that Venus was once a planet much closer to our own, so it’s kind of sad in a way to find out ...

IT is said (for example, refs. 1–3) that our knowledge of the surface of the cloud covered planet Venus is extremely fragmentary and ambiguous; that there are alternative non-thermal ...

While its surface is baked and barren today, might Venus once also have been covered by oceans? The answer is no, according ...

The first is that conditions on the surface of Venus were once temperate enough to support liquid water, but a runaway greenhouse effect caused by widespread volcanic activity caused the planet to ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Cambridge, however, has just posited that Venus may be less a twin than that thought in that it may never have even had oceans. Their findings, published ...

NASA shifts its focus from Mars to Venus for human colonization, exploring innovative solutions for survival in Venus' harsh ...

The disappointing revelation emerged from the fact it appears water oceans could never have existed on the surface of our neighboring planet. Venus is often referred to as Earth's "evil twin ...

Venus has long been called Earth's twin, because our sizes are so similar. But as we learned in the early 60s, on our surface ...

Yet a recent study in the journal Nature Astronomy strongly suggests Venus was always hostile to life. Scientists from the ...

The Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI) mission will depart early 2030s to ...

The University of Cambridge researchers studied the chemical composition of the Venusian atmosphere and inferred that its ...