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

Dr. Clara Sousa-Silva is the co-author on the study about Phosphine on Venus. We ask her some questions from you about the discovery.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

Explore how mass spectrometry is transforming planetary science – delivering key data from space missions to Titan, Venus and ...

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 ...

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 ...