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 ...

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" ...

Venus likely started off with the same amount of water as Earth, but today the hellish world has 100,000 times less water than its sister planet. Reading time 3 minutes Around 4.5 billion years ago, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Eryn Cangi, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) Today, the atmosphere of ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Venus Express has made the first detection of an atmospheric loss process on Venus’ dayside. Last year the spacecraft revealed that most of the lost atmosphere escapes from the nightside. Together, ...

The water inVenus' atmosphere is gone with the wind, new detections suggest. Thisabsence is strange, because astronomers think Venus and Earth likely began withsimilar amounts of water since they are ...