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 ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew by Venus while making its way to Saturn. Taking advantage Venus's gravity, Cassini gained ...

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 ...

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 ...

Radar and gravity records from NASA’s Magellan orbiter show that Venus' surface is still shifting and is not geologically ...

NASA image of Venus taken by the Mariner 10 spacecraft (main) and stock image of the ocean (inset). Venus may never have had liquid water, researchers have found.

Venus is in many ways more alike Earth than Mars will ever be, although at first glance its unwelcoming appearance, the clouds of sulfuric acid swirling around the surface, and the extreme ...

Venus is the space fan‘s darling this week, as a NASA spacecraft prepares to do a fly-by of the planet on Nov. 6 and get a few new photos on its way to study the sun.