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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Venus’ mass and size are practically identical to Earth’s, but the two planets are vastly different from one another. Gao points to three open questions for researchers to answer: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Venus' atmosphere has led to an extreme version of the same greenhouse effect causing climate change on Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...