Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system due to its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere, trapping heat as part of a ...

How can we successfully collect and return samples from Mercury and Venus to Earth? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a pair ...

Scientists using the James Webb Telescope have detected a gas on K2-18b that, on Earth, is only produced by living ...

Even though Venus moves between the Earth and sun every 19.5 months, it becomes visible after sunset and before sunrise only around every eight years, according to EarthSky. Typically, Venus orbits ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

In a potential breakthrough in the search for alien life, a team of international researchers has identified chemical ...

China has unveiled a long-term planetary exploration roadmap for planetary habitability and the search for extraterrestrial ...

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

From its name to its glow in the night sky, Venus has long been associated with beauty. But beneath its soft cloud cover lies one of the most hostile environments in our solar system. With surface ...

In our solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars have period ratios of about 2.6, 1.6, and 1.9, respectively. Overall, the study showed that our solar system fits reasonably well into the team ...