Venus's reputation as a cautionary tale of an Earth Gone Bad may have been somewhat exaggerated. We've thought that, before ...

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 ...

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia.

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 ...

The surface of Venus is not anything close to habitable, since its average surface temperature is around 864 degrees Fahrenheit. But what if we never bothered trying to walk on Venus and instead ...

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

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

But there's still a lot we don't know about Venus, and scientists say studying the planet will help them better understand "how Earth evolved and why it's habitable when others in our solar system ...

Scientists have proposed a new theory which suggests that possible lifeforms in the clouds of Venus could be setting off a cascade of chemical reactions that is making the environment much more ...

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 ...

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 ...