Scientists have identified a water-loss mechanism on Venus that could explain how the once water-rich world became completely parched. In the newly identified process, linked to a previously ...

An artist’s impression of the hydrogen atoms, orange, escaping into space while leaving behind carbon monoxide molecules, blue and purple. Illustration: Aurore Simonnet/LASP/CU Boulder Around 4.5 ...

Scientists may have identified a molecule that played a key role in robbing Venus of its water and turned this planet into the arid, hellish world we see today. Venus is often called "Earth's twin" ...

Among its other hellish conditions, Venus is bone dry, despite having once had plenty of water. Where did it all go? A new analysis attributes it to “dissociative recombination”, which caused a loss ...

Our planetary neighbor Venus is thought to have once had water, like Earth, but how it became the hellish world it is today has remained a mystery to scientists for decades. Now, however, researchers ...

Venus today is dry thanks to water loss to space as atomic hydrogen. In the dominant loss process, an HCO+ ion recombines with an electron, producing speedy H atoms (orange) that use CO molecules ...

Despite the hopes of both astronomers and sci-fi fans alike, Venus may never have been habitable to life. This is the conclusion of a new study out of the University of Cambridge, which has been ...

Venus and Earth are sometimes called twins because they’re pretty much about the same size. They also formed in the same ...

How did the planet Venus lose its water? This debate has rage on for some time and something a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of researchers from the University of ...

There are endless ways to die down here on Earth, but if you did your dying up on Venus, your experience of death would be ...

The planet Venus may not have always been the hot and barren ball of rock that we see today. A new analysis of its surface indicates that it might once have had oceans of liquid water--which could ...

(Nanowerk News) 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 ...