Dreams of finding a sort of Earth 2.0 motivate much of the thinking around the search for exoplanets. But there is more to exoplanet science than searching for potentially habitable worlds. Scientists ...

Thanks to ESA’s Venus Express data, scientists obtained the first large-area temperature maps of the southern hemisphere of the inhospitable, lead-melting surface of Venus. The new data may help with ...

Preliminary results of a study presented at the recent European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna indicate that hellish Venus-type planets may be about twice as common as habitable planets ...

A NASA illustration depicting a volcanic region called the Quetzalpetlatl Corona in Venus’ southern hemisphere. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Peter Rubin Even robots die quickly on Venus. The most long ...