According to computer modeling, the planet Venus could have once been habitable, hosting a shallow-water ocean, and surface temperatures hospitable to life. The simulations are based on present-day ...

Ancient Venus may have looked more like Earth than previously imagined. New research suggests that Earth's neighbor may have once looked more like our own planet and less like the hellish landscape we ...

For a 2-billion-year-long span, ending about 715 million years ago, Venus was likely a much more pleasant spot that it is today. To observe Venus now is to witness a dry and toxic hellscape, where the ...

Modern-day Venus is a hellish place, but that wasn't always the case. Studies have shown that billions of years ago it might have been just as habitable as Earth. So what happened? New research has ...

The surface of the Moon may be covered in rocks that came from Venus — potentially making it easy to study our hellish planetary neighbor. It's fairly speculative work, which the authors concede in ...

Unlike its present infernal landscape, planet Venus may have once been a habitable planet with a protective, Earth-like atmosphere, a new study suggests. It has long been proposed that Venus was born ...

Illustration of pancake domes on Venus. These are volcanic features, unique to the planet Venus, which are remarkably circular with broad, flat tops. They are thought to form from the slow eruption of ...

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NASA Sci-fi fans would be undoubtedly unnerved by the idea of giant tunnels under the surface of planets. So it’s no wonder ...

Two Yale University researchers have found a potential shortcut in sampling Venus’ ancient surface. Instead of sending a probe on a costly and extraordinarily challenging Venus sample return mission, ...

An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, scientists reported Wednesday. The parasitic wasp's abdomen boasts a set of flappy ...