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.
Did life on Venus die or hide? NASA's Venus Life Equation retools the Drake Equation to explore past oceans, microbial survival, and planetary fate, sparking a cosmic mystery.
The findings could assist astronomers in selecting extrasolar planets or "exoplanets" most likely to be habitable. "Even though it’s the closest planet to us, Venus is important for exoplanet ...
Artist's concept of a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a star called HD 20794. Illustration credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) Scientists have discovered a fascinating “super-Earth” just ...
A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims that if Venus was ever habitable – a question many have asked over the decades – then it is likely that oceans ...
Because liquid water can only exist at a comparatively narrow range of temperatures, habitable planets cannot ... inner edge of this orbital band, with Venus and Mars – our nearest neighbour ...