Venus's reputation as a cautionary tale of an Earth Gone Bad may have been somewhat exaggerated. We've thought that, before it became the toxic hellscape we know today, Venus could have once been ...

Venus may have had a shallow liquid-water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history, according to computer modeling of the planet’s ancient climate by ...

Scientists have poured cold water on the idea that Venus could once have supported life. The disappointing revelation emerged from the fact it appears water oceans could never have existed on the ...

Although Venus ranks low on the list of planets with surface conditions that could be habitable, scientists have been debating whether or not life could survive in the clouds of this scorching hot ...

A spectacular recent find points towards life on another planet in our solar system. NASA scientists presented a study that Venus could have been a habitable planet two or three billion years ago with ...

Venus was once a planet not too dissimilar to Earth, and if Jupiter hadn't altered its orbit around the sun, it might have been able to support life, according to researchers. As a result of Jupiter - ...

ESA’s Venus Express is helping planetary scientists investigate whether Venus once had oceans. If it did, it may even have begun its existence as a habitable planet similar to Earth. These days, Earth ...

To date, much of our search for past or present life elsewhere in the Solar System has focused on Mars. That’s not without reason; Mars is a rocky planet like Earth, has a thin atmosphere, and we’re ...

When the DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions to Venus were given the green light by NASA last week, the scientific community was stunned. Most had expected that NASA, which hadn’t launched a dedicated ...

Venus is among the biggest mysteries in the solar system because it’s “a hellish world” that NASA believes was once habitable, including flowing water and a shallow ocean. So what happened? The simple ...

It may be a hellish world now, but it's believed that Venus was once temperate, with shallow oceans on its surface. The hellish planet Venus may have had a perfectly habitable environment for 2 to 3 ...