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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have poured cold water on the idea that Venus could once have supported life. The disappointing revelation emerged from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chester E. Harman is in the Planetary Systems Branch, Space Science and Astrobiology Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035, USA. Read the paper: Day–night cloud ...

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 ...

The old adage that it's easier to prove a negative could play a crucial role in characterizing nearby exoplanets that could harbor life. The idea is that looking for earth-like planets is tough enough ...

A new study supports the longstanding idea that if life exists, it might make a home in Venus' clouds. The study's authors identified a chemical pathway by which life could neutralize Venus' acidic ...

View of planet Venus from space. Space, nebula and planet Venus. ——- Elements of this image furnished by NASA. Url(s): https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog ...