Venus's reputation as a cautionary tale of an Earth Gone Bad may have been somewhat exaggerated. We've thought that, before it became the toxic hellscape we know today, Venus could have once been ...

Venus may have had a shallow liquid-water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history, according to computer modeling of the planet’s ancient climate by ...

Venus was once a planet not too dissimilar to Earth, and if Jupiter hadn't altered its orbit around the sun, it might have been able to support life, according to researchers. As a result of Jupiter - ...

Although Venus ranks low on the list of planets with surface conditions that could be habitable, scientists have been debating whether or not life could survive in the clouds of this scorching hot ...

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 bodies are approximately the same size and mass. But unlike Earth, which is ...

ESA’s Venus Express is helping planetary scientists investigate whether Venus once had oceans. If it did, it may even have begun its existence as a habitable planet similar to Earth. These days, Earth ...

To date, much of our search for past or present life elsewhere in the Solar System has focused on Mars. That’s not without reason; Mars is a rocky planet like Earth, has a thin atmosphere, and we’re ...

A spectacular recent find points towards life on another planet in our solar system. NASA scientists presented a study that Venus could have been a habitable planet two or three billion years ago with ...

Venus is among the biggest mysteries in the solar system because it’s “a hellish world” that NASA believes was once habitable, including flowing water and a shallow ocean. So what happened? The simple ...

When the DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions to Venus were given the green light by NASA last week, the scientific community was stunned. Most had expected that NASA, which hadn’t launched a dedicated ...

It may be a hellish world now, but it's believed that Venus was once temperate, with shallow oceans on its surface. The hellish planet Venus may have had a perfectly habitable environment for 2 to 3 ...