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. It's because we live inside a big, natural puzzle, and we want to ...

When an asteroid strikes, there's typically at least one undeniable outcome: an asteroid mess. The most obvious part of this mess tends to come in the form of a nice and cinematic crater, but there's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have poured cold water on the idea that Venus could once have supported life. The disappointing revelation emerged from ...

Scientists have recently discovered compounds on Venus that support life back on Earth, bringing up the question of whether life exists on other planets. The compound that was found on Venus is ...

A spacecraft was en route to Venus when phosphine happened to be spotted. The astronomy community lit up earlier this week with news that hinted at possible signs of life on Venus. Among the most ...

Venus, the second planet from our Sun, vividly demonstrates why the greenhouse effect makes life impossible. With an average surface temperature of roughly 1000º F (500º C) under a toxic atmosphere ...

Although the Venus we know today is unfathomably hot and toxic, some researchers have long suspected that Earth's neighboring "twin" was once capable of supporting life. As the theory goes, Venus was ...