Venus provides invaluable insights into the search for life on other planets, according to a new study from UC Riverside.
Despite surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead, lava-spewing volcanoes, and puffy clouds of sulfuric acid, ...
"I think we are just more happy than anything that this latest result adds one more 'yes' for the possibility of life on Venus." If Venus hosts lifeforms in its toxic clouds, they likely won't be ...
Studying and eventually understanding our planet Venus remains our best hope for characterizing earth-mass planets circling ...
At a recent workshop, researchers and journalists debated how to announce a potential discovery of extraterrestrial life ...
If we discover alien life, what will it look like? We have no way of knowing, but the hunt for extraterrestrial life can now include purple bacteria, according to a group of astronomers who are ...
Venus’s atmosphere isn’t that friendly – but may not be deadly (Picture: Getty/iStockphoto) Continuing our hunt to find life in the solar system outside Earth, we turn our thoughts to Venus.
Astronomers have spotted what they believe to be a rainbow-like phenomenon occurring on a planet outside our solar system for the first time, and it could reveal new insights about alien worlds.
A fringe theory called "panspermia" suggests that lifeforms can spread to new planets by hitching rides on meteors. New ...
If Venus hosts lifeforms in its toxic clouds, they likely won't be deprived of amino acids, one of the essential building blocks of life (as we know it). At least, that's what scientists say is ...
If Venus hosts lifeforms in its toxic clouds, they likely won't be deprived of amino acids, one of the essential building blocks of life (as we know it). At least, that's what scientists say is the ...