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.

How Satisfying? Cloud Cities on Venus: Could They Exist? Posted: March 19, 2025 | Last updated: March 19, 2025 "An epic exploration of possibilities. What If is a Webby Award-winning science web ...

The first private spacecraft mission to Venus will combat the planet's hellish conditions with the aid of a novel woven heat shield called "HEEET." ...

But any life in Venus’s clouds would have to find a way to keep its organelles in and deadly venusian acids out, while surviving with almost no water. Grzegorz Słowik, a planetary scientist at ...

Did life on Venus die or hide? NASA's Venus Life Equation retools the Drake Equation to explore past oceans, microbial ...

Researchers present the Venus Life Equation, a novel formula to approximate the possibility of life on Venus, shedding light ...

In their pursuit, they’ve looked at Venus, which has recently raised speculation because of the possibility of life in its clouds. Sanjay Limaye, a planetary scientist at University of Wisconsin’s ...

This image provided by NASA/Firefly Aerospace, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, shows the sun setting on the moon, with Earth and Venus in the distance. (NASA/Firefly Aerospace via AP) NEW YORK (AP ...

An international team of astronomers including UK scientists from Manchester and Cardiff, today announced the discovery of a rare molecule – phosphine – in the clouds of Venus. On Earth, this gas is ...

Mercury has almost no atmosphere. A thick atmosphere made mostly of carbon dioxide covers Venus, trapping heat and raising surface temperatures. Clouds on Venus form from sulfuric acid.