What drives us to send probes throughout the solar system and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

LLISSE will be a small weather station and chemistry kit. On the surface of Venus, LLISSE’s “long life” would mean an astounding 60 Earth days (or half a Venus solar day, Venus having an ...

On the solid surface of a rocky planet like Venus, the gas would be quickly destroyed before making it to the interior. “This could be unknown photochemistry or geochemistry, or possible life, ...

Instead, the only photos of Venus’ surface we have to look at were captured ... a planet that we have explored considerably in the search for life beyond our planet. As Earth’s twin, learning ...

Conditions in the upper atmosphere are more temperate and Earth-like, and under certain scenarios could have still fostered life, even if Venus' surface was too far gone. "Any potential life in ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

Convection processes beneath Venus' scorched surface may help explain the planet's many volcanoes, a new study reports.

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

Earthly life-forms are the only examples we have ... And the venusian skies offer a better chance at survival than the ground. The surface of Venus is a hellscape with temperatures around 900 ...

who recently led a team in mapping a large part of Venus’ surface. For instance, if Venusian rocks formed in the presence of water, that might suggest the planet was once able to support life.

By carrying material to the surface of planets to its mantle ... "We won’t know for sure whether Venus can or did support ...

Finding extraterrestrial life in any form would be truly one of the largest discoveries in humankind’s history, yet after decades of scouring the surface ... found on Venus, at 98% and 81% ...