The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the ...

As space exploration continues to reveal new and fascinating insights into the planets of our solar system, the possibility ...

Venus, known as Earth’s “sister planet,” is anything but hospitable. With its thick atmosphere, extreme pressure, and scorching heat, Venus has long been considered a lifeless world. However, recent ...

A U.K.-led mission aims to determine if microbial life exists in Venus’s clouds by detecting phosphine and ammonia.

Using infrared imaging data collected by the two satellites over a 10-year period from 2015 to 2025, the team estimated ...

In 2025, space exploration enters a new era with missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, led by NASA, ISRO, ESA, JAXA, and ...

Venus, as a planet, is remarkable in more ways than one. It comes with a diameter that's just five percent smaller than our own blue marble, it has a similar mass and density, its core is made ...

According to the researchers, however, Venus's atmosphere is simply too dry: It doesn't contain enough water for there have been oceans that slowly evaporated as the planet warmed.

The answer lies in the world's atmosphere. If Venus was once a watery, habitable world, the composition of water in the planet's erupting gases would reflect this past history.

Earth is an ocean world, with water covering about 71% of its surface. Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, is sometimes called Earth's twin based on their similar size and rocky composition.

Set to reach Venus in the late 2030s, DAVINCI will be the first spacecraft to drop a probe through the dense atmosphere of this hellish world, gathering data about its structure and composition.