"Venus has 100,000 times less water than the Earth, even though it's basically the same size and mass." Scientists may have identified a molecule that played a key role in robbing Venus of its ...

A new water loss mechanism on Venus explains how the planet lost all its water, turning the planet from a potentially habitable world into the parched hellscape we know today. Scientists have ...

Traditionally, the dogwood represents the onset of spring in many parts of the country, and although the vernal equinox for ...

Evidence continues to assemble that Venus is more geologically active than previously thought. Planetary scientists scouring decades-old data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft have found signs of ...

Illustration: Aurore Simonnet/LASP/CU Boulder Around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth and Venus were born in the midst of a chaotic star system. With the neighboring worlds being of the same size and ...

Humanity's only mission in Venus is in limbo after a Japanese spacecraft went dark last month, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency confirmed. The JAXA space agency said it lost communication ...

Planetary scientists may have discovered why Venus has 100,000 times less water than Earth. Venus is Earth’s sister planet. They’re of similar size, and they’re both in our sun’s ...

Even though Venus and Earth are so-called sister planets, they're as different as heaven and hell. Earth is a natural paradise where life has persevered under its azure skies despite multiple mass ...

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant DGE 1650115. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or ...

Planetary scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered how Venus, Earth's scalding and uninhabitable neighbor, became so dry. The new study fills in a big gap in what the ...

One of the weirdest places in our Solar System may actually be a great place to search for alien life: the skies of Venus. We don’t have evidence of life — or even indisputable evidence that ...