A spectacular recent find points towards life on another planet in our solar system. NASA scientists presented a study that Venus could have been a habitable planet two or three billion years ago with ...

Long before the hunt began to find Earth lookalikes around other stars, one planet in the solar system had already been named Earth's twin. With its similar size and mass, Venus measures very close to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some exoplanets, like the one shown in this illustration, may have atmospheres that could make them potentially suitable for life.

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James Webb ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA on Wednesday announced plans to launch a pair of missions to Venus to better understand how Earth’s neighbor became an "inferno-like world," when it may have once been ...

Venus gets called Earth’s twin because of how similar the two planets are in size and structure, but that’s where […] ...

A newly discovered tectonic "regime" may explain why Earth has active plates while Venus remains stagnant. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Morgan Underwood, Rice University (THE CONVERSATION) When astronomers search for ...