The process explains how most of Venus' water evaporated from its atmosphere, likely within the first billion years of the planet's history. However, it doesn't account for the last 330 feet (100 ...

However, when Chaffin, Gregory and Eryn Cangi led their team to apply the same mechanism to Venus’ atmosphere, the models showed that HCO + dissociative recombination must be the dominant form of ...

Astronomers have long debated whether Venus, which is extremely hot and inhospitable to life today, once had liquid-water oceans on its surface. A new study found very little water in the planet's ...

Even robots die quickly on Venus.. The most long-lived of the 10 Venusian landers, the Soviet Union's Venera 13 probe, lasted two hours before succumbing to pizza oven-like temperatures of some ...