Venus is often called Earth’s twin, but its atmosphere is one of the harshest in the Solar System. NASA’s DAVINCI probe will dive into those clouds to search for chemical clues that could point to ...

Venus, often considered Earth’s twin due to its similar size and proximity, presents a starkly different environment ...

Agrawal and her team studied ionic liquids — salts that are liquid at sub-boiling temperatures (below 212 degrees Fahrenheit, ...

While there were many caveats in linking the discovery directly to proof of life on Venus, it still set both the scientific community and the public abuzz with new wonder. Missions to space can be ...

A UK-based mission is aiming to settle, once and for all, whether life exists on Venus. The mission plans to send a probe to the planet in search of microbial life, not on the surface, of course ...

In 2020, scientists claimed to have found a sign of life on Venus: hints of a stinky gas called phosphine that’s made by microbes on Earth. The claim was swiftly challenged and, years later, is ...

The answer to whether tiny bacterial lifeforms really do exist in the clouds of Venus could be revealed once-and-for-all by a UK-backed mission. Over the past five years researchers have detected ...