Many rocky worlds orbiting other stars share characteristics with our sister planet, particularly those near their star’s inner habitable zone. If Venus’s history is typical of such planets ...

In contrast, Venus-like planets on the inner edge of extrasolar habitable zones are thought to have what is known as stagnant lid geophysics in which there is no systematic carbon recycling of the ...

Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term ...

Venus is a counterpoint to anyone searching for an Earth-like planet in the cosmos. After all, if you define a “habitable zone” around the sun—orbits when water neither boils nor freezes ...

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

Scientists believe that Venus' oceans boiled away as solar activity intensified, warming the planet as the evaporating water acted as a powerful greenhouse gas. If other potentially habitable desert ...

Emily Simpson, a passionate space enthusiast and recent Florida Tech graduate, has published groundbreaking research that imagines an alternate version of our solar system. Instead of the asteroid ...