The bold question-askers at What If explore whether life could survive on Venus given its gravity is 91% that of Earth's.

Venus, meanwhile, is a rocky world that shares a similar size, mass and density with our planet, which has led to it being nicknamed 'Earth's twin'. However, telescopic and robotic observations are ...

The answer to whether tiny bacterial life-forms really do exist in the clouds of Venus could be revealed once and for all by ...

Short for Venus Mass Spectrometer, VMS is one of five instruments aboard the DAVINCI descent probe. Launching in 2029, DAVINCI will be the first US probe mission to enter Venus’ atmosphere in ...

Of the roughly 4,200 exoplanets discovered thus far, most are larger than Earth. But the recently identified planet L 98-59b is just half the mass of Venus.

Venus is a fiery world with sulfuric acid clouds and a toxic atmosphere fueled by a runaway greenhouse effect, but scientists believe that about 800 million years ago, it could have been more like ...

Venus' atmosphere has led to an extreme version of the same greenhouse effect causing climate change on Earth.

If there are microbes living in the Venusian skies, they have evolved to survive with far less water than any known life on Earth, a new study suggests.

A team of astronomers have shed new light on planets around a nearby star, L 98-59, that resemble those in the inner Solar System. Amongst the findings are a planet with half the mass of Venus ...

This drawing shows the components of the Venus Mass Spectrometer (VMS) instrument to be installed in the atmospheric probe on the DAVINCI mission to Venus. The job of VMS is to sample gas during ...

An international collaboration of researchers has identified a rocky exoplanet half the size of Venus, making it the lowest-mass planet measured so far. They published their findings in Astronomy and ...