For decades, Venus, often dubbed “Earth’s twin,” has been depicted as a barren, inhospitable world, its surface locked in an unchanging, oven-hot state. Yet, recent data from NASA’s Magellan orbiter ...

The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the ...

Venus, known as Earth’s “sister planet,” is anything but hospitable. With its thick atmosphere, extreme pressure, and scorching heat, Venus has long been considered a lifeless world. However, recent ...

This radar image captured by the Magellan probe shows a region on Venus' surface approximately 180 miles (300 kilometers) across, and located in a vast plain to the south of Aphrodite Terra.

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

Using infrared imaging data collected by the two satellites over a 10-year period from 2015 to 2025, the team estimated ...

The UK’s VERVE mission to hunt for microbial life in Venus’s clouds could redefine the search for extraterrestrial life.

Things may be moving on Venus’ surface. In 1983, researchers discovered that the planet’s surface was speckled with strange, circular landforms. These rounded mountain belts, known as coronae ...

At the end of this decade, NASA's DAVINCI mission will be able to test and confirm whether Venus has always been a dry, inhospitable planet, with a series of flybys and a probe sent to the surface.

The data was gathered by the Magellan mission, which remains the best data on the gravity and topography of Venus despite having orbited the planet in the 1990s.

The outlook is promising for future long-term monitoring of planets across multiple wavelengths. Infrared imaging data from ...